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Published on in Vol 14 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/95370, first published .
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Patient-Provider Distance in Medicare Outpatient Oncology Telehealth Versus Office Visits, 2021‐2023: Cross-Sectional Claims Analysis

Patient-Provider Distance in Medicare Outpatient Oncology Telehealth Versus Office Visits, 2021‐2023: Cross-Sectional Claims Analysis

Lingbo Liu   1, 2 , PhD ;   Tracy Onega   3, 4 , MS, MA, MPAS, PhD ;   Erika L Moen   5, 6, 7 , MS, PhD ;   Anna N A Tosteson   6, 7 , ScD ;   Rebecca E Smith   6 , MS ;   Qianfei Wang   6 , MS ;   Lauren Cowan   3 , MPH, CPH ;   Fahui Wang   8 , PhD

1 Thrust of Urban Governance and Design, Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

2 Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

3 Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

4 Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

5 Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

6 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

7 Dartmouth Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

8 Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

Corresponding Author:

  • Fahui Wang, PhD
  • Department of Geography
  • University of Hong Kong
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  • Hong Kong
  • China (Hong Kong)
  • Phone: 852 391-02256
  • Email: fhwang@hku.hk