Massachusetts coverage expansion associated with reduction in primary care utilization among medicare beneficiaries

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6 PART1, 2013, Pages 1826-1839

  Bond, Amelia M ^a   White, Chapin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR STUDYING HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance expansion; Medicare; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE EXPANSION; INSURANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH INSURANCE EXPANSION; MEDICARE; PRIMARY CARE;

AGED; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84892954913     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12103     Document Type: Article

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