... . Patient characteristics differed by insurance status. In particular, patients on Medicaid/Medicare and uninsured patients were more likely to have drug addictions, while patients with private ...
... having experienced racial or ethnic bias in the healthcare they received. First, they found that uninsured Black and Hispanic patients were more likely to report experiencing racial and ethnic bias. ...
... know less about what actually happens when the uninsured try to obtain health care in various ... Medicaid funding.
Nearly 13 percent of patients were uninsured at the public hospital, compared to four ...
... closed due to a lack of suitable storage space in the new building.
Researchers found that, for uninsured patients, the percentage of medications prescribed as generics rose from 12 percent to 30 ...
Retail medical clinics located in pharmacies and other stores typically attract insured and uninsured patients who are seeking help for a small group of easy-to-treat illnesses or preventive care and ...
... -repeated statement about urban EDs being overwhelmed with uninsured patients appeared to largely stem from a paper ... plastic surgeon who saw three emergency patients in nine months – two of whom had no ...
... however, are located in health-care markets with severe physician shortages and lots of uninsured patients. As a result, efforts to improve the performance of these lower-performing practices should ...
... , said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients....
... that providing free samples helps financially struggling patients, Chimonas and Kassirer cite research showing that low-income uninsured patients are in fact less likely to receive free ...
... a shortage of surgeons and declining reimbursement associated with increasing numbers of uninsured patients. Further, general surgeons are increasingly subspecializing, resulting in difficulty ...
... , a managed care organization, commercial indemnity insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.
Overall, uninsured patients had the highest rate of death following admission for trauma, even after controlling ...
... coverage on screening and the cost effectiveness of screening uninsured patients, Dr. Scott Tenner and colleagues ... early stage colon cancer, and 22 patients had polyps larger than 1 cm. These large ...
... coverage on screening and the cost effectiveness of screening uninsured patients, Dr. Jianjun Li and colleagues ... had early stage colon cancer, and 22 patients had polyps larger than 1 cm. These large ...
... .4 percent). "Mortality rates were substantially higher for all uninsured patients, almost doubling for African American ( ... 9 percent to 11.4 percent) and Hispanic patients (6.3 percent to 11.3 percent ...
... and Hispanic patients are more likely to die following trauma than white patients, and uninsured patients have a higher death risk when compared with those who have health insurance, according to a ...
