Figure 3. Mean Number of Veterans Health Administration Ambulatory Encounters During 1 Year Among High-Risk Patients by Primary Care Setting.

Mean counts of any in-person primary care (general or specialized), any mental health, any medical specialty, or any emergency department (ED) face-to-face visit from October 1, 2015, to September 30, 2016. Other encounters include any outpatient telephone, telehealth, surgical, radiology, rehabilitation, and procedural visits. Quantitative results are also given in eTable 2 in the Supplement. Two-sample t tests were used for each encounter type comparing patients enrolled in general vs specialized primary care. We performed the Tukey multiple comparison procedure to assess differences in means.

^aP < .05.

^bP < .001.