Impact of Health Insurance Patterns on Chronic Health Conditions Among Older Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients have varying levels of chronic conditions and health insurance patterns as they become Medicare age-eligible. Understanding these dynamics will inform policies and reforms that direct capacity and resources for primary care clinics to care for these aging patients. This study 1) determined changes in chronic condition rates following Medicare age eligibility among patients with different insurance patterns and 2) estimated the number of chronically ill patients who remain inadequately insured post-Medicare eligibility among patients receiving care in community health centers.

Method

We used retrospective electronic health record data from 45,527 patients aged 62 to 68 from 990 community health centers in 25 states in 2014 to 2019. Insurance patterns (cont

SUBMITTER: Huguet N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662026 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature