Research Interests: delivery innovations such as retail clinics, e-visits, and telemedicine, quality, costs, and access to health care, price transparency, public reporting of health care quality
This article covers Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice Ateev Mehrotra's research showing that telemedicine coverage in Medicare may not substantially improve access for low-resourced and rural communities.
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice Ateev Mehrotra led a study that showed that greater use of telemedicine among mental health specialists did not substantially change whether they were seeing patients from rural or underserved areas.
While telemedicine provides convenience for patients who move to areas far from their providers, researchers found it does not substantially improve care access for those in rural or underserved areas.
Researchers from RAND, Brown University School of Public Health and Harvard report that young people are turning to generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, for mental health advice at unexpectedly high rates.