Association Between Health Insurance Literacy and Avoidance of Health Care Services Owing to Cost.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Navigating health insurance and health care choices requires considerable health insurance literacy. Although recommended preventive services are exempt from out-of-pocket costs under the Affordable Care Act, many people may remain unaware of this provision and its effect on their required payment. Little is known about the association between individuals' health insurance literacy and their use of preventive or nonpreventive health care services.

Objective

To assess the association between health insurance literacy and self-reported avoidance of health care services owing to cost.

Design, setting, and participants

In this survey study, a US national, geographically diverse, nonprobability sample of 506 US residents aged 18 years or older with current healt

SUBMITTER: Tipirneni R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324372 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature