Toward estimating the impact of changes in immigrants' insurance eligibility on hospital expenditures for uncompensated care

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Castel, Liana D ^a   Timbie, Justin W ^a,b   Sendersky, Veronica ^a,c   Curtis, Lesley H ^a   Feather, Keith A ^d   Schulman, Kevin A ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; IMMIGRANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAW; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICS;

ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347386417     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-3-1     Document Type: Article

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