Association of Medicare and Medicaid insurance with increasing primary care-treatable emergency department visits in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Policymakers have increasingly focused on emergency department (ED) utilization for primary care-treatable conditions as a potentially avoidable source of rising health care costs. The objective was to determine the association of health insurance type and arrival time, as indicators of limited availability of primary care, with primary care-treatable classification of ED visits.

Methods

This was a retrospective analysis of a nationally representative sample of 241,167 ED visits from the 1997 to 2009 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys (NHAMCS). Probabilities of ED visits being primary care-treatable were categorized based on the primary International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code. The association o

SUBMITTER: Pukurdpol P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7255778 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature