This study examined the characteristics and service use of Medicaid Buy-In participants with higher incomes (above 250 … were less likely to enroll in Medicare and more likely to be enrolled in third-party insurance. Service use for higher …

report provides the most comprehensive information to date on patterns of Medicaid and Medicare spending and service use …

effectively monitor patterns of service use through time so that the impacts of changes in policy or service delivery can be … evaluated. Here, we present a new approach that, for the first time, allows national changes in health service use during a time … information systems to provide robust estimates of national patterns of outpatient service use. This represents the first such use …

econometric analyses of health service use in Canada include broad controls by province and rural/urban status, there has been … relatively little econometric work that has focused specifically on geographical variation in health service use. Using the 2002 …: 1) other things equal, health service use is lower among older residents of rural areas in terms of visits to a GP, to a …

. There were strong, non-linear, interdependent links between degree of intellectual disability, behaviour, service use and …