Comparison of Access to Eye Care Appointments Between Patients with Medicaid and Those with Private Health Care Insurance

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Explores if patients with Medicaid and private health insurance in Maryland and Michigan experience differences in access to eye care appointments. Includes information on the rate at which appointments were obtained for patients and the length of appointment wait times by a variety of factors, including for urban and rural patients.

Yoon H. Lee, Andrew X. Chen, Varshini Varadaraj, et al.

JAMA Ophthalmology, 136(6), 622-629

06/2018

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Access · Children and youth · Health insurance · Medicaid · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Maryland · Michigan