Work

Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

Year: 2007

Type: report

Abstract: Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit during each month of an uninsured episode. We find that the ultimate length of an individual's episode of being uninsured bears relatively little on individuals' use of healthcare in any particular month and that the probability of health care utilization rises during the first year of the episode, with more use in the second six months of the year compared to the first six months.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w13137

Authors: Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski, José Escarce

Institutions: RAND Corporation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University of California, Los Angeles

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Policy and Management

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2891584777

Cites: 17

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10