Underinsurance Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A rise in pediatric underinsurance during the last decade among households with children with special health care needs (CSHCN) requires a better understanding of which households, by health care burden or income level, have been most impacted.

Objective

To examine the prevalence of underinsurance across categories of child medical complexity and the variation in underinsurance within these categories across different levels of household income.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the National Survey of Children's Health and included 218 621 US children from 2016 to 2021. All children included did not reside in any type of institution (eg, correctional institutions, juvenile facilities, orphanages, long-term care faci

SUBMITTER: Validova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751585 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature