Identifying affordable sources of medical care among uninsured persons.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effects of policy, health system, and sociodemographic characteristics on the likelihood that uninsured persons pay a lower price at their regular source of care, or that they are aware of lower priced providers in their community.

Data sources

The 2003 Community Tracking Study household survey, a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population and 60 randomly selected communities.

Study design

The survey asked uninsured persons if they paid full or reduced cost at their usual source of medical care, or if they were aware of providers in their community that charge less for uninsured people. We use binomial and multinomial logistic regression analysis to examine the effects of various policy, health system, and sociodemographic charact

SUBMITTER: Cunningham PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1955746 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature