Annual Days With a Health Care Encounter for Children and Youth Enrolled in Medicaid: A Multistate Analysis.

Objective: To assess the number of days that children experienced a health care encounter and associations between chronic condition types and health care encounters.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of data from 5,082,231 children ages 0 to 18 years enrolled in Medicaid during 2017 in 12 US states contained in the IBM Watson Marketscan Medicaid Database. We counted and categorized enrollees' encounter days, defined as unique days a child had a health care visit, by type of health service.

Pediatrician Attitudes Toward and Experiences With Telehealth Use: Results From a National Survey.

Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics 2015 policy statement on telehealth proposed that telehealth could increase access to high-quality pediatric care and that pediatricians should work to reduce barriers to telehealth for their patients. However, little is known about pediatricians' experiences with and attitudes toward telehealth.

Methods: Data from a nationally representative survey of American Academy of Pediatrics postresidency US member pediatricians in 2016, restricted to respondents providing direct patient care (n = 744; response rate = 48.