Table 1.
Contacts With Response, by Clinician Characteristics
| Clinician Characteristics | Clinicians, by Number of Contacts With Response, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | Total | |
| Waiver capacity | ||||
| 30 patients | ||||
| NP or PA | 19 (13) | 22 (15) | 109 (73) | 150 |
| Physician | 27 (29) | 11 (12) | 55 (59) | 93 |
| 100 patients | 21 (11) | 39 (20) | 132 (69) | 192 |
| 275 patients | 10 (9) | 17 (15) | 84 (76) | 111 |
| State | ||||
| District of Columbia | 12 (32) | 8 (22) | 17 (46) | 37 |
| Massachusetts | 12 (11) | 20 (19) | 73 (70) | 105 |
| Maryland | 20 (20) | 13 (13) | 69 (68) | 102 |
| New Hampshire | 6 (8) | 14 (19) | 53 (73) | 73 |
| Ohio | 16 (12) | 23 (17) | 98 (72) | 137 |
| West Virginia | 11 (12) | 11 (12) | 70 (76) | 92 |
| Urban/rural location* | ||||
| Urban | 66 (16) | 72 (17) | 286 (67) | 424 |
| Rural | 11 (9) | 17 (14) | 94 (77) | 122 |
| Years since initial waiver for physicians | ||||
| <6 (<median) | 27 (15) | 34 (19) | 118 (66) | 179 |
| ≥6 (≥median) | 31 (14) | 33 (15) | 153 (71) | 217 |
| Total | 77 (14) | 89 (16) | 380 (70) | 546 |
NP = nurse practitioner; PA = physician assistant.
*
Each sampled clinic address was mapped to a Rural–Urban Commuting Area Code from the University of Washington Rural Health Research Center (http://depts.washington.edu/uwruca/ruca-data.php) and classified as urban or rural on the basis of its classification system.