March, 2014
There is, however, variation from state‐to‐state, which reflects states’ differing benefits and covered populations. For instance, most Medicaid NEMT rides in Connecticut (49.3%) and Pennsylvania (56.8%) were behavioral health services for substance abuse. By comparison, rides for dialysis services were the most prevalent in Mississippi (46%) and Hawaii (42%) while rides to behavioral health services […]
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MJS & Company
February, 2014
A study of Delaware Medicaid NEMT found that the reason for treatment was significantly associated with cancelations. In multivariate analyses, trips for a wide variety of treatment reasons were more likely to be canceled compared with dialysis encounters except for obtained alternative transportation cancelations. Doctor’s encounter trip had 2.1 and 2.5 times the odds for […]
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Kara E. MacLeod, David R. Ragland, Thomas R. Prohaska, Matthew Lee Smith, Cheryl Irmiter, and William A. Satariano
February, 2014
Over a 3-year period, 125,913 trips were scheduled by 2,913 older adult clients in Delaware receiving Medicaid. Approximately two thirds of these trips were scheduled by females (66%), half were scheduled by persons younger than 75 (51%), and 10% were scheduled by persons aged 85 or older. Many of the older adults (42%) who intended […]
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Kara E. MacLeod, David R. Ragland, Thomas R. Prohaska, Matthew Lee Smith, Cheryl Irmiter, and William A. Satariano
May, 2006
To assess the impacts of medical transportation services on utilization of the total number of health care services the child received during the past year and the total number of EPSDT services the child received during the past year, respondents were analyzed along the strata MTP users and MTP non-users. Indeed, utilization of MTP services […]
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Stephen Boyce Borders
