Health Insurance and Disparities in Mortality among Older Survivors of Critical Illness: A Population Study.
Yoland F PhilpottsXiaoyue MaMichaela R AndersonMay HuaMatthew R BaldwinPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2019)
Older adults with Medicaid insurance have a higher 1-year post-hospitalization mortality compared with those with commercial insurance, especially among those discharged to SCFs. Future studies should investigate care disparities at SCFs that may mediate these higher mortality rates. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:2497-2504, 2019.