Ability to obtain medical care for the uninsured: how much does it vary across communities?P J Cunningham
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024, USA
JAMA 280:921-7. 1998
..Changes in the health care system, many of which are driven locally, may further exacerbate these differences...
- Managed care and physicians' provision of charity care
P J Cunningham
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024, USA
JAMA 281:1087-92. 1999
..Health system changes may be affecting the ability of physicians to provide care with little or no compensation from patients who are uninsured and under-insured and may result in decreased access to physicians for uninsured persons...
- Do consumers know how their health plan works?
P J Cunningham
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 20:159-66. 2001
..In general, consumers tended to overreport plan restrictions, especially the need for approval to see specialists...
- Does managed care enable more low income persons to identify a usual source of care? Implications for access to care
P J Cunningham
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024, USA
Med Care 39:716-26. 2001
..By requiring or encouraging enrollees to obtain a usual source of care, managed care programs hope to improve access to care without incurring higher costs...
- What accounts for differences in uninsurance rates across communities?
P J Cunningham
Center for Studying Health System Change, 600 Maryland Ave, S W, Suite 550, Washington, DC 20024, USA
Inquiry 38:6-21. 2001
..Despite the large number of identifiable factors included in the analysis, there is still a substantial amount of unexplained regional variation in uninsurance rates...
Racial and ethnic differences in access to medical care in managed care plansJ L Hargraves
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024, USA
Health Serv Res 36:853-68. 2001
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