Individuals' use of care while uninsured
Subtitle: effects of time since episode inception and episode length
By: Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski, José J. Escarce.
Contributors: Rogowski, Jeannette A.; Escarce, José J.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 13137.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13137.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Medically uninsured persons -- Mathematical models
Description: "Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit during each month of an uninsured episode. We find that the ultimate length of an individual's episode of being uninsured bears relatively little on individuals' use of healthcare in any particular month and that the probability of health care utilization rises during the first year of the episode, with more use in the second six months of the year compared to the first six months."
Notes: "May 2007"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).

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