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
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
Of the Medicaid beneficiares with asthma in the rural areas, there was no statistically significant difference in the recommended number of visits completed between those who used and did not use NEMT.
July, 2011
HIV-infected women in rural areas experience considerable barriers to treatment. Of 64 HIV-infected women in rural CA, 31.2% reported lack of transportation was a barrier to receiving care, and 32.8% reported physical health problems prevented travel to care.
March, 2008
A Florida State Unviersity study showed a rate of return on investment factor of 11:1 for eligible populations in the state program–low-income, elderly and disabled. This calculation was based on a “conservative estimate” that one out of every 100 trips (1%) prevents a one-day stay in a hospital, which results in a total benefit of […]