Trends in US Ambulatory Care Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Following reductions in US ambulatory care early in the pandemic, it remains unclear whether care consistently returned to expected rates across insurance types and services.

Objective

To assess whether patients with Medicaid or Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibility had significantly lower than expected return to use of ambulatory care rates than patients with commercial, Medicare Advantage, or Medicare fee-for-service insurance.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective cohort study examining ambulatory care service patterns from January 1, 2019, through February 28, 2021, claims data from multiple US payers were combined using the Milliman MedInsight research database. Using a difference-in-differences design, the extent to which utilization du

SUBMITTER: Mafi JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature