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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Uninsured patients"”.
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… costs constitute a significant burden for patients who are uninsured and managing chronic conditions and links to the likelihood of medication non-compliance (Piette, et al., 2006; Reed, 2005; Solomon, 2005).</p> <p>To enhance its chronic disease management model for uninsured patients …
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"Roadblocks, Stop Signs": Health Literacy, Education and Communication at a Free Medical Clinic
… in a free medical clinic for low-income and uninsured patients, addresses the patients' health literacy and access to health information inside and outside of the clinic setting, as well as the strategies clinic providers use to effectively communicate health information. This study is based …
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Nonemergency visits to the emergency room : revelations from the COVID era.
… ("ERs") in the United States ("US") must see all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Many uninsured patients that cannot pay for healthcare treatments tend to use ERs for primary care. This contributes to excessive healthcare costs in the US, financial challenges for hospitals, and …
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Essays on health insurance
<p>Uninsured individuals receive fewer health care services for at least three reasons: higher prices, responsibility for the entire bill, and potential provider reductions for concern of non-payment. This study isolates differences in service levels between insured and uninsured individuals that …
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Essays in Health Economics
… compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperability between hospitals leads to better health outcomes and lower costs for shared patients. We also show that hospitals prefer sending patients to …
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Variability in Pricing of Generic Antipsychotic Medications Used in the Treatment of Schizophrenia at Community Pharmacies in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… may be valuable for providers serving uninsured patients. Further analyses will examine the contribution of geographic-level socio-demographic factors to these differences.
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Congestive Heart Failure Hospital Admissions among Non-Elderly Medicaid and Uninsured Working-Age Adult Patients in South Carolina, 2008
… Admissions among Non-Elderly Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in South Carolina, 2008.</p> <p>Background: Despite significant advances in the quality of care in some areas, hospital admissions for heart failure (HF) continue to rise . Data for this study examined hospital discharge data for …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… health care services to two main groups - the uninsured and Medicaid enrollees - who face barriers to accessing primary health services and often turn to their local emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent medical care. To examine the effect of CHCs on ED visits that do not result in an …