Psychiatry related information on Medically Uninsured

• RESULTS: Women who received no prenatal care were more likely to be multiparous, living with at least one child, less educated, uninsured, smoke, use cocaine and have a prior history of substance abuse [1].

High impact information on Medically Uninsured

• Comparison of uninsured and privately insured hospital patients. Condition on admission, resource use, and outcome [2].
• Among women who received chemotherapy with or without hormonal therapy, Hispanics were more likely than White non-Hispanic women to receive therapy, whereas women with private insurance or Medicare were less likely than uninsured and Medicaid-insured women to receive this type of therapy [3].
• The impact of Blue Cross conversions on health spending and the uninsured [4].
• Hallmarks include creation of a Congressional Health Plan; use of the income tax system to provide tax credits and enroll uninsured people; creation of a state Family Health Insurance Program open to everyone below 150 percent of poverty; and creation of a Medicare Part E, open to the disabled and uninsured older adults [5].
• Among persons with income between 100 percent and 200 percent of FPL, public coverage reduced the number of uninsured persons and crowded out some private insurance [6].

Associations of Medically Uninsured with chemical compounds

• BACKGROUND: Public insurance for testing supplies for self-monitoring of blood glucose is highly variable across Canada. We sought to determine if insured patients were more likely than uninsured patients to use self-monitoring and whether they had better glycemic control [7].
• Insured women (24.9%) were three times more likely to use estrogen replacement therapy than uninsured women (7.9%) [8].
• Data from the Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the number of uninsured Americans rose in 2001and in the first quarter of 2002 [9].
• Patterns of use of a free nicotine patch program for Medicaid and uninsured patients [10].
• In Rochester, New York, a cooperative effort between hospitals, physicians, and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan created an insurance program designed for low income uninsured patients [11].

Gene context of Medically Uninsured

• Despite these health advantages, foreign-born Black men were more likely than either US-born Black or White men to be uninsured [12].
• Although the growth of the number of uninsured and Medicare patients admitted through the ER predate PPS, they may be influenced by it and warrant further monitoring [13].
• Immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Haiti, Korea, and Vietnam were the most likely to be uninsured [14].
• STUDY DESIGN: We predict annual use of ambulatory care and inpatient hospital care for Medicaid beneficiaries receiving AFDC cash assistance and compare it to what their use would be if uninsured or if covered by private insurance [15].
• CONCLUSIONS: Children using the Kansas City EMS were more likely to be infants, insured by Medicaid or uninsured, and live in low-income ZIP codes [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Medically Uninsured

• Racial/ethnic differences in FIM scores and length of stay for underinsured patients undergoing stroke inpatient rehabilitation [17].

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