Impact of Medicare Coverage on Basic Clinical Services for Previously Uninsured Adults
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Impact of Medicare coverage on basic clinical services for previously uninsured adults.
CONTEXT Uninsured adults receive less appropriate care and have more adverse health consequences than insured adults. Longitudinal studies would help to more clearly define the effects of health insurance on health care and health. OBJECTIVE To assess the differential effects of gaining Medicare coverage on use of basic clinical services and medications by previously insured and uninsured adu...
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CONTEXT Uninsured near-elderly adults, particularly those with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, experience worse health outcomes than insured adults. However, the health benefits of providing insurance coverage for uninsured adults have not been clearly demonstrated. OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of acquiring Medicare coverage on the health of previously uninsured adults. DESIGN AND SET...
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BACKGROUND Medicare spending after age 65 years may be higher for previously uninsured adults if suboptimal care before this age leads to irreversible complications, persistently elevated clinical risks, or delay of costly elective procedures. OBJECTIVE To compare Medicare spending for previously uninsured and insured adults by using Medicare claims data. DESIGN Longitudinal survey data and...
متن کاملUse of health services by previously uninsured Medicare beneficiaries.
BACKGROUND Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program at the age of 65 years may have greater morbidity, requiring more intensive and costlier care over subsequent years, than they would if they had been previously insured. METHODS We used longitudinal data from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study to assess self-reported health care use and expenditur...
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We wish to acknowledge the assistance that we received from the following people and organizations. First, we thank the University of South Carolina Rural Health Research Center, funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy, for sponsoring the study and the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for agreeing to prov...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.6.757