Are state medicaid application enrollment forms readable?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 423-431

  Wilson, Jocelyn M ^a   Wallace, Lorraine S ^a   DeVoe, Jennifer E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Literacy; Medicaid; Readability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPREHENSION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MEDICAID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649410692     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.0.0127     Document Type: Article

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