Health Care Use Among Patients Retroactively Insured via a Hospital-Based Insurance Linkage Program.

Ella C EisingerAngela T ChenOmar I RamadanAnna U MorganM Kit DelgadoElinore J Kaufman

Published in: Journal of general internal medicine (2024)

Hospital-based insurance linkage reached three-quarters of uninsured patients and was associated with increased utilization of acute and outpatient health care services. An acute care encounter represents an opportunity to connect patients to insurance, a key step toward improving their health outcomes.

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