January, 2006
The estimate of 3.6 million Americans who miss or delay medical care because of a lack of access to NEMT each year, derived from analysis of NHIS and MEPS data, is conservative and should be seen as a lower-bound estimate. The response bias inherent in these studies, for example, the difficulty of surveying homeless people […]
Author
Richard Wallace, Paul Hughes-Cromwick, and Hillary Mull
January, 2006
Authors find that the provision of NEMT to those who currently lack it results in a net cost savings across the transportation and health care domains for four of these conditions (prenatal care, asthma, heart disease, and diabetes) and is cost-effective for the remaining eight conditions (influenza vaccinations, breast cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, dental […]
Author
Richard Wallace, Paul Hughes-Cromwick, and Hillary Mull
