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| Erika C ZillerSummaryAffiliation: University of Maine Country: USA Publications
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Patterns of individual health insurance coverage, 1996-2000Erika C Ziller
Institute for Health Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland ME, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:210-21. 2004..Understanding the dynamics of this market will better inform federal and state insurance reform efforts...
Out-of-pocket health spending and the rural underinsuredErika C Ziller
Institute for Health Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1688-99. 2006..Multivariate analyses suggest that rural residents' underinsurance status is related to the design of the private plans through which they have coverage...
Uninsured rural familiesErika C Ziller
Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04101, USA
J Rural Health 24:1-11. 2008..Although research shows higher uninsured rates among rural versus urban individuals, prior studies are limited because they do not examine coverage across entire rural families...
Access to rural mental health services: service use and out-of-pocket costsErika C Ziller
Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04101, USA
J Rural Health 26:214-24. 2010..To examine rural-urban differences in the use of mental health services (mental health and substance abuse office visits, and mental health prescriptions) and in the out-of-pocket costs paid for these services...
Patterns of health insurance coverage among rural and urban childrenAndrew F Coburn
University of Southern Maine, USA
Med Care Res Rev 59:272-92. 2002..These findings have important implications for designing insurance expansion programs and outreach strategies to effectively enroll and retain rural children...
Use of critical access hospital emergency rooms by patients with mental health symptomsDavid Hartley
Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104, USA
J Rural Health 23:108-15. 2007..National data demonstrate that mental health (MH) visits to the emergency room (ER) comprise a small, but not inconsequential, proportion of all visits; however, we lack a rural picture of this issue...
Low costs of defensive medicine, small savings from tort reformJ William Thomas
Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1578-84. 2010..These savings are lower than most previous estimates, and they suggest that the presumed impact of tort reform on health care costs may be overstated...
