Medicaid patients have greater difficulty scheduling health care appointments compared with private insurance patients: a meta-analysis

WR Hsiang, A Lukasiewicz, M Gentry… - … : The Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Medicaid patients are known to have reduced access to care compared with privately
insured patients; however, quantifying this disparity with large controlled studies remains a …

Access to office-based buprenorphine treatment in areas with high rates of opioid-related mortality: an audit study

T Beetham, B Saloner, SE Wakeman… - Annals of internal …, 2019 - acpjournals.org
Background: Improving access to treatment for opioid use disorder is a national priority, but
little is known about the barriers encountered by patients seeking buprenorphine–naloxone …

Naloxone availability and pharmacy staff knowledge of standing order for naloxone in Pennsylvania pharmacies

RL Graves, E Andreyeva, J Perrone… - Journal of addiction …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess the availability and price of naloxone as well as pharmacy staff
knowledge of the standing order for naloxone in Pennsylvania pharmacies. Methods: We …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic status impacts outcomes following pediatric anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

AR Patel, N Sarkisova, R Smith, K Gupta… - Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Previous research has shown that delays in pediatric anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
reconstruction are associated with increased prevalence of concomitant knee injuries and …

Investigation of bias in an epilepsy machine learning algorithm trained on physician notes

BD Wissel, HM Greiner, TA Glauser, FT Mangano… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Racial disparities in the utilization of epilepsy surgery are well documented, but it is
unknown whether a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm trained on physician …

“Are you accepting new patients?” A pilot field experiment on telephonebased gatekeeping and Black patients' access to pediatric care

TGJ Leech, A IrbyShasanmi… - Health Services …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Study Objectives To determine whether name and accent cues that the caller is Black shape
physician offices' responses to telephonebased requests for wellchild visits. Method and …

Does Medicaid insurance provide sufficient access to pediatric orthopedic care under the Affordable Care Act?

J Nguyen, NS Anandasivam… - Global Pediatric …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act had a profound impact on health insurance
coverage of children. Given the importance of pediatric specialty care, this study assessed …

Improving nonattendance rates among pediatric patients with Medicaid or private insurance

SB Chaudhry, E Siegfried, UA Sheikh… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Access to dermatologists is low among Medicaid-insured patients. Higher clinic
nonattendance among Medicaid-insured patients might affect provider decisions to accept …

Refusal of cancerdirected surgery in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients

MM Crippen, ML Elias, JS Weisberger… - The …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis To investigate the risk factors for refusal of recommended surgery in
head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treatment Study Design Retrospective …

Disparities in pediatric provider availability by insurance type after the ACA in California

JK Pintor, HE Alcalá, DH Roby, DT Grande… - Academic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To examine insurance-based disparities in provider-related barriers to care
among children in California in the wake of changes to the insurance market resulting from …