The impact of payer status on hospital admissions: evidence from an academic medical center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are plenty of studies investigating the disparity of payer status in accessing to care. However, most studies are either disease-specific or cohort-specific. Quantifying the disparity from the level of facility through a large controlled study are rare. This study aims to examine how the payer status affects patient hospitalization from the perspective of a facility.

Methods

We extracted all patients with visiting record in a medical center between 5/1/2009-4/30/2014, and then linked the outpatient and inpatient records three year before target admission time to patients. We conduct a retrospective observational study using a conditional logistic regression methodology. To control the illness of patients with different diseases in training the model, we cons

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8425077 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature