Disparities in Substance Use Disorder Telehealth Services

Lauryn Saxe Walker; Manying Cui; Jonathan Cantor; Melody Craff; Cheryl L Damberg; John N Mafi; Katherine L Kahn

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.59606

Disparities in Substance Use Disorder Telehealth Services

JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Feb 3;8(2):e2459606. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.59606.

Authors

Lauryn Saxe Walker¹, Manying Cui², Jonathan Cantor³, Melody Craff⁴, Cheryl L Damberg³, John N Mafi^{2

3}, Katherine L Kahn^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Virginia Center for Health Innovation, Richmond.
² Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
³ RAND, Santa Monica, California.
⁴ MedInsight, Milliman Inc, Seattle, Washington.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether telehealth utilization is associated with changes in payer-based and rural-urban disparities in substance use disorder treatment.