Transportation and the Role of Hospitals
November, 2017
Social determinants of health, including lack of access to transportation, are responsible for 40% of factors contributing to health.
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Ride-sharing Tied to Reduce Ambulance Trips
October, 2017
Using a city-panel over-time and leveraging that UberX enter markets sporadically over multiple years, we find that UberX entry reduced the per capital ambulance volume by at least 7%.
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Access to Transportation and Health Care Visits for Medicaid Enrollees with Diabetes
March, 2017
Use of nonemergency medical transportation is a significant predictor of diabetes care visits. Older enrollees were likely to make more visits than younger enrollees with diabetes; controlling for all other factors in the model, rural residents made more visits than urban; women made fewer visits than men; and minorities made fewer visits than whites, with […]
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Access to Transportation and Health Care Visits for Medicaid Enrollees with Diabetes
March, 2017
The burden of diabetes is 2.5 times higher for people with transportation barriers than in the rest of the US population.
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Beneficiary Experience: Early Findings from Focus Groups with Enrollees Participating in the Financial Alignment Initiative
March, 2017
Focus groups interviewed about the CMS Financial Alignment Initiative (FAI) demonstration described concerns about the quality, reliability, and accessibility of NEMT as one challenge as they navigated the demonstration to obtain benefits and services.