Impact of indemnity private health insurance on emergency department visits and expenditures

The Effect of Health Insurance on Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from an Age-Based Eligibility Threshold

This paper studies how health insurance affects the rate at which individuals visit hospitals and emergency departments (EDs). We identify the causal effect of losing health insurance using a regression discontinuity design. We compare individuals just before and just after their 23rd birthdays, which private insurers have used as a cutoff after which students are no longer eligible for their p...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60

PRIVATE expenditures for medical care in the United St,ates amounted in 1060 to $10.6 billion. This total was nearly $1.6 billion more than that spent in 1059. The data presented here for 1060 represent a continuation of a series of annual estimates made by the Division of Program Research and published each year, generally in the December issue of the BULLETIN. Slight adjustments have been mad...

Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–61

THE NATION’S private consumer expenditures for medical care amounted in 1961 to $21.1 billion$1.3 billion or approximately 7 percent more than the amount spent in 1960. Direct out-of-pocket payments by consumers amounted to $14.4 billion or 68 percent of the total. The balance of $6.7 billion, representing payments for health insurance, was $832 million or 14 percent greater than the amount spe...

The impact of insurance coverage on children's dental visits and expenditures, 1996.

BACKGROUND Health insurance coverage has been shown to relate positively with the use of dental services. The purpose of the authors' study was to describe the level of dental coverage among U.S. children and to assess the impact of dental coverage on children's use of dental services and expenditures for dental care. METHODS The focus of these analyses is on dental care coverage, use and exp...

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.