Figure. Rates of Telemedicine Visits per 1000 Rural Medicare Beneficiaries in States With and Without Telemedicine Parity Laws in 2011, 2004-2013^a.

Error bars indicate 95% CIs.

^a The 12 states with a telemedicine parity law enacted by 2011 were included in the parity law cohort regardless of when the law was enacted. The states are Louisiana (enacted 1995), California (1996), Oklahoma (1997), Texas (1997), Hawaii (1999), Kentucky (2000), Colorado (2001), Georgia (2006), Maine (2009), New Hampshire (2009), Oregon (2009), and Virginia (2010).⁵