February, 2018
Hitch Health’s national rollout was preceded by a six-month pilot phase in the Twin Cities area. The startup said it partnered with Lyft during the trial period to find and offer its service to “at-risk populations” that go through HCMC or any of the primary care clinics run by Hennepin Healthcare. Results of the test […]
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%.
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 […]
January, 2014
Available data show that for all three chronic conditions users of NEMT services in rural and urban areas had a higher probability of meeting the required number of maintenance visits to a provider.
January, 2014
However, the least-used NEMT services by Hispanics and Asians are noteworthy. A possible explanation is language barrier, as suggested by Hispanic residents of Detroit in focus group interviews.