From the Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School; the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Stanford University School of Medicine.
From the Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School; the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Stanford University School of Medicine.
From the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and New York University Langone Health.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York; the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, and the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
From the Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center; and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
I estimate the impact of an information campaign on long-term care planning behaviors. I identify this effect using the staggered timing of the federal-state "Own Your Future" campaign, which urged in...
Migrant workers are recognized as a vulnerable group of population in the context of accessibility to healthcare services as they are likely to experience multiple challenges and barriers. This study ...
This cross-sectional, interviewer-administered study used a pre-designed questionnaire on migrant workers attending the Foreign Worker Health Screening Centre from June until September 2019. Data were...
The study obtained responses from 469 documented migrant workers (93.8%). 75.1% reported being aware of and having health insurance coverage; and of these, 57.1% were aware of the type of health insur...
A high proportion of documented migrant workers in Brunei Darussalam reported knowledge of having health insurance; however, there was lack of awareness on its actual coverage. By including migrants' ...
The people of Hawai'i have both high rates of health insurance and high levels of racial and ethnic diversity, but the degree to which insurance status and race and ethnicity contribute to health outc...
To evaluate the associations of insurance coverage, race and ethnicity (using disaggregated race and ethnicity data), and vaccination with outcomes for COVID-19 hospitalization....
This retrospective cohort study included hospitalized patients at a tertiary care medical center between March 2020 and March 2022. All patients hospitalized for acute COVID-19, identified based on di...
COVID-19 requiring hospitalization....
Electronic medical record data were collected for all patients. Associations among race and ethnicity, insurance coverage, receipt of at least 1 COVID-19 vaccine, intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, i...
A total of 1176 patients (median [IQR] age of 58 [41-71] years; 630 [54%] male) were hospitalized with COVID-19, with a median (IQR) body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by ...
In this cohort study of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those with government-funded insurance coverage (Medicare or Medicaid) had similar outcomes compared with patients with commercial insuranc...
Insurance coverage affects health care access for many delivering women diagnosed with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA; passed i...
To assess associations between MHPAEA and ACA implementation and psychotherapy use and costs among delivering women overall and with PMADs....
This cross-sectional study conducted interrupted time series analyses of private insurance data from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2019, for delivering women aged 15 to 44 years, including those wi...
Implementation of the MHPAEA and ACA....
Any psychotherapy use and per-visit OOPCs for psychotherapy standardized to 2019 dollars....
The study included 837 316 overall deliveries among 716 052 women (mean [SD] age, 31.2 [5.4] years; 7.6% Asian, 8.8% Black, 12.8% Hispanic, 64.1% White, and 6.7% unknown race and ethnicity). In the ov...
This study found complementary and complex associations between passage of the MHPAEA and ACA and access to psychotherapy among delivering individuals. These findings indicate the value of continuing ...
South Korea's National Health Insurance (NHI) system pursues universal health coverage, but it has not been able to alleviate patients' financial burden owing to limited coverage and a high proportion...
Using data from the 2016 and 2018 Korea Health Panel (KHP), we established a treatment group affected by the policy and an unaffected control group; we ensured homogeneity between the groups using pro...
Following policy implementation, the control group had a higher increase than the treatment group in all categories of health expenditures, including NHI payments, non-payments, and OOP. We noted sign...
We observed the policy's intervention effect over time as a decrease in non-payments, on the effectivity of remunerating covered medical services. However, the policy did not work for NHI payments and...
The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth report recommends several Medicaid policies to increase insurance coverage among adolescents: approve Medicaid expansion; eliminate the ...
We conducted semistructured interviews January 2022 with 28 adolescent health and health-care access experts in Nebraska, including representatives from health care, education, government, and nonprof...
Participants were unable to identify any Medicaid advocates or advocacy work focused on adolescents, but they did identify 35 organizations working to improve insurance coverage in Nebraska. Coordinat...
Advocacy efforts should be implemented to increase adoption and implementation of Medicaid policies recommended to increase adolescents' insurance coverage. These efforts must be built on a foundation...
The accessibility issue of orphan drugs in China is prominent. Based on real-world data from a tier-one city in Northeast China, this study aims to analyze the current usage and affordability of orpha...
The data was sourced from the health insurance claims data of a certain city from 2018 to 2021, including a total of 16 orphan drugs. The utilization of orphan drugs is assessed using four indicators:...
Between January 2018 and December 2021, there were a total of 2,851 medical insurance claims in the city, with a total medication costs of $3.08 million. Overall, during the study, there was a year-on...
The usage frequency of orphan drugs in a certain city increased gradually, but the disease burden remained heavy. More policy support should be provided to the priority rare disease populations, and t...
For accessing dental care in Canada, approximately 62% of the population has employment-based insurance, 6% have some publicly funded coverage, and 32% have to pay out-of pocket. Those with no insuran...
This study is a secondary analysis of the data collected from Ontarians during the latest available cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey (2017-18), a cross-sectional survey that collects info...
Approximately one-third of Ontarians do not have private insurance coverage for dental care. Individuals with an income below $20,000, those unemployed or working part-time, seniors aged above 70, and...
In the future, government-funded programs can incorporate these identified risk indicators when determining eligible populations for publicly funded dental programs. Understanding these attributes is ...
This study measures associations between COVID-19 deaths and sociodemographic factors (wealth, insurance coverage, urban residence, age, state population) for states in Nigeria across two waves of the...
A quarter of United States (US) postpartum women still report unmet health care needs and health care unaffordability. We aimed to study associations between receipt of health insurance coverage and p...
This study design is a cross-sectional study using secondary data. We included women who gave birth within the last 12 months from 2019 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample. Poverty w...
It was notable that 35.6% of US postpartum women in poverty did not have Medicaid/government medical assistance and only a small proportion received public assistance income (9.8%)/supplementary secur...
Our results showed that the receipt of Medicaid/government medical assistance is significantly associated with poverty and having government financial support. However, postpartum women in poverty sti...
