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June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
This article summarizes California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, which was passed in 2006 with the intent of protecting low-income uninsured patients from having to pay hospitals’ full billed charges.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Depending on which data source is used, estimates of uninsurance rates and disparities in these rates between population groups can differ substantially, according to this analysis comparing data from three national surveys regarding the American Indian/Alaska Native population.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Massachusetts' 2006 health reform cut the uninsurance rate for children approximately in half in the first two years following implementation.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
When deciding whether to treat an uninsured patient, providers often review the patient's payment history. This study examined demographic characteristics predictive of nonpayment among uninsured patients the study occurred in metropolitan emergency departments and ambulatory clinics.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Investigation into subsidies for hospitals that provide a disproportionate share (DSH) of care to uninsured patients in California found that DSH subsidies do not effectively target the highest providers of care to the uninsured.
September 10, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper reports analyses of Current Population Survey Medicaid responses matched to individual-level, high-quality administrative data on Medicaid enrollment.
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
About one-fifth of the U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 64 lacks health insurance and the size of this group is expected to rise as the cost of health care premiums increases. Using data on 37,089 adults at 60 sites from the 2000-2001 Comm ...
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
The Affordable Care Act enables young adults to remain as dependents on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, and recent evidence suggests that as many as three million young adults have gained coverage as a result.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The challenges faced by Massachusetts as it attempts to sustain health reform in these difficult times provide important lessons for implementing reform in the rest of the country.
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Between 1997 and 2007, the number of undocumented immigrants increased from an estimated 8.5 million to 11.8 million, leading to an estimated additional 1.8 million uninsured.