SMJ articles in the category "health insurance"

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Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Emergency Department Use Among Safety-Net Patients in the Southwestern United States

Objectives: Patients’ perceptions of how they are treated in their interactions with the healthcare system represent important and valid measures of healthcare quality that may influence health utilization, outcomes, and costs. Perceived discrimination or the sense of being treated unfairly is an important patient perception known to adversely affect health,…

Posted in: health insurance 4 perceived discrimination 2

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Access to Primary Care Physicians Differs by Health Insurance Coverage in Mississippi

Objectives: The objective of the study was to measure how access to primary health care in Mississippi varies by type of health insurance. Methods: We called primary care physician (general practitioner, family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, and pediatric) offices in Mississippi three times, citing different types of health insurance coverage…

Posted in: health insurance 4 Medicaid 13 medicare 3 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 3

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Health Insurance and the Development of Diabetic Complications

Background:Lack of health insurance can adversely affect access to medical care which leads to poor disease outcome. Few studies examine the effects of no insurance on the development of diabetes complications. The objective of this study was to determine if there is an association between health insurance status and the…

Posted in: diabetes mellitus 34 health insurance 4 Hispanic 7

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The Influence of Payer Mix and Visit Volume on NRMP Match Rates for Community-based Family Medicine Residency Programs

Background: With declining U.S. medical student interest in family medicine, it is important to study factors that may predict for individual residency program fill rates. Predictors of family medicine residency program match rates are few, with location by region of the country being the best predictor. Using a limited database,…

Posted in: family practice 6 health insurance 4 medical residency 2 medically uninsured 4
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