Even small increases in copays affect children's healthcare use
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 08:31
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Increases in copayments of only a few dollars for ALL Kids, Alabama's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), led to declines in the use of several healthcare services for the children they affected, reveals a study in Health Services Research. Use of services within ALL Kids with no increase in copayments did not decline, nor was a decline in services observed for children whose copayments did not rise.