Download or read book Access to Health Care in Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensuring Universal Access to Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Health Care in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are accustomed to anecdotal evidence of the health care crisis. Yet, personal or local stories do not provide a comprehensive nationwide picture of our access to health care. Now, this book offers the long-awaited health equivalent of national economic indicators. This useful volume defines a set of national objectives and identifies indicatorsâ€"measures of utilization and outcomeâ€"that can "sense" when and where problems occur in accessing specific health care services. Using the indicators, the committee presents significant conclusions about the situation today, examining the relationships between access to care and factors such as income, race, ethnic origin, and location. The committee offers recommendations to federal, state, and local agencies for improving data collection and monitoring. This highly readable and well-organized volume will be essential for policymakers, public health officials, insurance companies, hospitals, physicians and nurses, and interested individuals.
Download or read book Solutions to the Lack of Access to Health Insurance in Massachusetts written by Sidney Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Massachusetts written by Sharon K. Long and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Massachusetts written by Lokendra Phadera and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Health Care in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmet: Need More than one-fifth (21%) of residents did not get the care they needed due to cost in the 12 months prior to the 2009 survey, with the level higher for non-elderly adults (27%) than children (9%) or elderly adults (15%). Uninsured residents had an especially high degree of unmet need, with 67% of uninsured non-elderly adults forgoing needed care due to cost. Although not as high, unmet need because of costs was also more common for residents with lower family income and those in fair or poor health or with a disability. While there were few changes in unmet need because of costs between 2008 and 2009 within subgroups based on age, family income, race/ethnicity, health status, disability status, or insurance status, unmet need rose among elderly adults with family income less than 150% FPL, and declined among children with family income less than 150% FPL and Hispanic children. Barriers to Care: Despite relatively high use of health care services among residents, more than one-fifth (22%) reported having problems obtaining health care in the past 12 months in 2009. Non-elderly adults were more likely to report problems obtaining health care (27%) than either children (14%) or elderly adults (15%). The estimates of difficulty obtaining care for 2009 are not significantly different from those for 2008. The disabled and those in fair or poor health were most likely to report difficulties. In 2009, some 30% of children with a disability or in fair or poor health reported problems obtaining health care in the past 12 months, compared with 13% of healthy, non-disabled children. Similarly, 38% of non-elderly adults in fair or poor health reported difficulties, compared with 26% of other non-elderly adults. Medical Bills: Some 15% of residents lived in families reporting difficulties paying medical bills in 2009. Children and non-elderly adults, those with lower family incomes, the uninsured, the disabled, and those in fair or poor health had the greatest difficulties paying for health care. The share of residents reporting problems paying medical bills was quite similar in 2008 and 2009 overall and within subgroups based on age, family income, race/ethnicity, health status, disability status, or insurance status. Access for Different Population Groups: Not surprisingly, lower-income residents had lower access to care across all measures compared with higher-income residents in both 2008 and 2009. Across age groups, non-elderly adults consistently reported lower access compared with children and elderly adults. Among race/ethnicity groups, Hispanic and other, non-Hispanic residents tended to have lower access to care compared with white, non-Hispanic and black, non-Hispanic residents. The largest users of health care services, the disabled and those in fair or poor health, also experienced greater barriers to care and had more unmet need for health care in the past 12 months due to cost compared with non-disabled residents and those in better health. Although a lower share of uninsured non-elderly adults reported problems obtaining health care in the past 12 months compared with insured residents, this most likely reflects the reluctance of uninsured residents to seek care they cannot afford, as unmet need for health care because of cost in the past 12 months is much higher for this group.
Download or read book Access to Health Care in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Health Care in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Children written by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-10-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
Download or read book Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access and Affordability in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an update on insurance coverage, health care access and use, and health care costs and affordability for working-age adults 19 to 64 in Massachusetts as of fall 2013, as the state was preparing to implement the major coverage-expansion components of the ACA and beginning to implement changes under Chapter 224. The 2013 MHRS highlights the state's ongoing success at maintaining near universal health insurance coverage since the 2006 health care reform legislation, as well as the continued burden of health care costs on the state's residents. The report is organized as follows: Chapter II describes the data and methods used in the study. Chapter III reports on health insurance coverage overall and by coverage type. For coverage type, we compare employer-sponsored insurance coverage (ESI) with other (non-ESI) coverage, where other (non-ESI) coverage is more likely to be public coverage for lower-income adults and nongroup coverage for higher-income adults. Chapters IV and V address health care access and use, and health care costs and affordability, respectively. Chapter V summarizes key findings and considers the opportunities for changes to the health care system as Massachusetts looks ahead.
Download or read book Access to Health Care in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access Use and Affordability in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an update on insurance coverage, health care access and use, and health care costs and affordability for nonelderly adults ages 19 to 64 in Massachusetts as of 2012, as the state prepares to implement the ACA and begins implementing changes under Chapter 224.
Download or read book Improving Access to Children s Health Insurance in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) presents the full text of a fact sheet entitled "Improving Access to Children's Health Insurance in Massachusetts." AAP includes data on projections on the health insurance status of children in Massachusetts, current Medicaid income eligibility in Massachusetts, and the program eligibility of uninsured children in Massachusetts.
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Download or read book The Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Law written by Pamela Joy Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
