Medicaid Patients Experience Longer Wait Times at Academic Urology Clinics Compared to Patients with Medicare
| Autor: | Howard L. Adler, Ramsey Kalil, Andrew Chen, William Berg, Jason Kim, Tal Cohen, Wai Lee, Wayne C. Waltzer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Urology 030232 urology & nephrology Wait time Health equity Telephone survey 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Family medicine Health care medicine Urology clinic 030212 general & internal medicine Single institution business Medicaid health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Urology Practice. 5:360-366 |
| ISSN: | 2352-0779 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.urpr.2017.09.001 |
| Popis: | Introduction: It has been established that Medicaid patients face unequal access to health care. There is a paucity of literature comparing wait times for Medicaid patients to those of patients with other types of insurance. We determined whether Medicaid patients experience longer wait times at academic urology clinics compared to patients with Medicare.Methods: A prospective cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted in October 2016. The study involved collection of data from multiple academic centers with telephone interviews conducted from a single institution. Calls were made to all accredited urology residency programs (131). Earliest appointment times were established for fictional patients with Medicaid and then Medicare. The main outcome was the difference in wait times for a new patient appointment in a urology clinic for Medicaid vs Medicare patients. The wait time in days was the difference between the date of the appointment and the date of the telephone call.Results: There were 1... |
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