January, 2014
Medicaid beneficiaries who use NEMT services are significantly more likely to make the recommended number of annual visits for the management of chronic conditions than those who do not use NEMT.
January, 2014
In rural areas, 52% of Medicaid beneficiaries with hypertension who used NEMT visited the health care provider 4 times or more a year whereas only 26.89% of non-NEMT users did so.
January, 2014
In urban areas, 50.17% of the Medicaid beneficiaries with hypertension who used NEMT services made the recommended number of visits or more per year for the management of the condition, whereas only 27.50% of those who used alternative modes of travel met the standard.
January, 2014
Of the Medicaid beneficiaries with congestive heart failure in rural areas, 70.77% of those who employed NEMT services completed the 10 visits per year whereas only 27.03% of those who did not use NEMT services made the 10 visits
January, 2014
8.19% of Medicaid beneficiaries with congesitve heart failure living in urban areas used NEMT services. Of these, 55.81% made the prescribed number of 10 visits or more while only 28.22% of those who did not use the NEMT services made the recommended number of visits.