OBJECTIVE Evaluate the growth in various types of Medicare-paid telehealth services. BACKGROUND There has been a long-standing hope that telehealth could be used to reduce rural patients' travel times to specialty physicians. Medicare covers telehealth services provided through live, interactive videoconferencing between a beneficiary located at a certified rural site and a distant practition...

P a t i e n t s 738 patients (mean age 57 y, 55% men) with ≥ 1 episode of unprovoked VTE (defined as objectively confirmed, symptomatic, proximal deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism that occurred in the absence of a major risk factor for thrombosis) who had completed ≥ 3 months of oral anticoagulant therapy at the conventional intensity. Exclusion criteria were other indications for wa...

Vol. XLI (November 2004), 369–381 369 *Eric T. Bradlow is Associate Professor of Marketing and Statistics and Academic Director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (e-mail: ebradlow@ wharton.upenn.edu). Ye Hu is a visiting assistant professor, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University (e-mail: [email protected]). Teck-Hua Ho is W...