Preventive services among medicare beneficiaries with supplemental coverage versus HMO enrollees, medicaid recipients, and elders with no additional coverage

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 616-626

  Carrasquillo, Olveen ^a,b   Lantigua, Rafael A ^a   Shea, Steven ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance; mammography; Health maintenance organizations; Influenza vaccine; Medicare; Preventive health services

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE PART B; MEDICARE PART C; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0035378361     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200106000-00009     Document Type: Article

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