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.
Author
Leela V. Thomas and Kenneth R. Wedel
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.
Author
L.V. Thomas and K.R. Wedel, Delaware State University
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.
Author
L.V. Thomas and K.R. Wedel, Delaware State University
January, 2014
4.15% of Medicaid patients with asthma in the urban area used NEMT services, of which 81.25% made the recommended number of visits to a provider, whereas of those who did not use NEMT services only 54.82% made the requisite number of visits.
Author
L.V. Thomas and K.R. Wedel, Delaware State University
March, 2013
In a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation physician survey, 85 percent of primary care physicians agreed that “unmet social needs—things like access to nutritious food, reliable transportation, and adequate housing—are leading directly to worse health for all Americans.” This rate increased to 95 percent among physicians serving patients in low-income urban communities.
Author
Gayle Shier, Michael Ginsburg, Julianne Howell, Patricia Volland, and Robyn Golden