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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"insured"”.
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Medication utilization for rheumatoid arthritis among commercially insured patients
… RA medication utilization among a commercially insured population compares to treatment recommendations from the ACR guideline for the treatment of RA. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study used data from commercially insured patients from the Optum Data Warehouse. Patients were …
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Health-promoting Behavior Comparisons of Insured and Uninsured Rural Women
… and the health care seeking behavior of rural insured and uninsured women. The study also described the demographic characteristics of these groups. A comparative, descriptive, and non-experimental study design was utilized. A sample size of sixty-four (N=64) was achieved. Information from the …
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Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children
This research investigated physician and emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children …
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The Prevalence Of Mental Disorders And Associated Out-Ofpocket Expenditure Among Insured Patients In South Africa
… the total South African population is medically insured. PHI, however, only covers a restricted set of expenses. The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence of mental disorders and the out-of-pocket costs among South African insured individuals. Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS) …
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Differentiating beliefs of insured and uninsured, insurance-eligible state employees: a new application of the Health Belief Model
The increasing number of uninsured Americans is a crucial policy issue for the United States; however, there is a paucity of empirical social science research on the uninsured with which to guide the development of policy. Previous research indicates that when insurance is voluntary, whether …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… with prevalence were identified for fully-insured plan density (p=0.018), median income (p<0.001), and private school enrollment density (p=0.015); and significant negative relationships were observed for percent white (p=0.012), and urbanicity (p=0.003). Stronger positive age-prevalence …
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Under-insurance and the effect of the average clause on insurance contracts
… full value of the damage that occurred while an insured only paid small premiums in relation thereto. It has become common practice under insurers to insert an average clause into insurance contracts to protect themselves in instances of under-insurance. The average clause today is a standard …
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Factors associated with partial health insurance coverage among households in Malawi
… low uptake, with only 3% of the total population insured. Moreover, within insured households, coverage is often incomplete, leaving some members without protection. This partial insurance coverage increasingly contributes to a reliance on out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE), a regressive and …
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Legal and Practical Problems Relating to Insurance Claims and Settlement of the Claims in Tanzania
… claims settlement favour insurers more than the insured. Three insurance companies purposely selected were included, namely the National Insurance Corporation (NIC), Phoenix Insurance Company and Jubilee Insurance Company. Data was collected through Interviews with the insurance companies’ …
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The role of the National Health insurance scheme in shaping equity of access to healthcare in Ghana
… equity in health insurance coverage and whether insured members are able to access healthcare equitably. Against this background, four broad findings were identified. Firstly, even though the NHIS improved insurance coverage in the Tamale District, enrolment was largely inequitable because most …
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Impact of National Health Insurance on health seeking behavior in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana
… This study examines health-seeking behaviours of insured and uninsured households on the mutual health insurance scheme on health care access in the Kassena-Nankana District (KND) of northern Ghana and to determine the factors that influence household decision to enrol into the NHIS. The study is …
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Sustainable approaches to ad-hoc information sharing for virtual organizations
… a risk aversion index. In the second approach, insured access, the VO uses an insurance scheme to reimburse damages to VO members attributable to sharing their own information. We show how to estimate the risk associated with an insured access, i.e., the probability distribution of future …
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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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Micro-Impact: Deconstructing the complex impact process of a simple microinsurance product in Indonesia
… which was eventually revealed. The majority of insured were married female Muslim petty traders in urban and semi-urban areas around Jakarta. Socio-economically these women stand at the upper end of the low-asset stratum. Their husbands were generally the main bread-winners of the family, and it …
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The Impact of Being Uninsured in the United States on Economic and Humanistic Outcomes: Results from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys
… dissertation was to describe the extent of the uninsured problem in the United States for the non-elderly population, and for various subpopulations. The objectives were 1) for specific cohorts within the United States non-elderly population, compare humanistic and economic outcomes between …
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Il contratto di assicurazione sulla vita a favore di terzo: alternativa al testamento?
… and its effectiveness since the death of the insured, gives the opportunity to avoid the ban of succession agreements or necessary succession. In addition, the social security aim, which characterizes this kind of contract, allows guaranteeing the insured amount of money and a favourable tax …
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Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets
… in coverage of non-mandated benefits among the insured. The minimum standards therefore, while requiring additional insurance coverage among the insured, were also associated with both extensive and intensive declines in insurance coverage. Considering all of these various changes, I estimate …
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Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… which are designed to provide coverage for uninsured children with family income too high to qualify for Medicaid but not high enough to secure private insurance, affect coverage, medical care utilization and child health outcomes. I find strong and consistent evidence that the number of …
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Empirical essays on finance and development
… how rural households invest in their farms. Insured farmers utilize more expensive capital inputs and adopt different technologies. Additionally, the insurance changes labor supply patterns. Notably, members of insured households are approximately 10% more likely to migrate internationally. …
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Factors Influencing Performance of the Insurance Industry in Tanzania: The Case of Zanzibar Insurance Corporation
… that performance of ZIC were affected by insured by delaying to pay premium on time, to report fake claim and lack of know how about insurance service. In addition, accessibility and awareness to the insurance services provided by ZIC was not so difficult, therefore most intermediaries and …
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