Recent Findings from NEOMED Has Provided New Information about Medicare and Medicaid (Patient Insurance Profiles: A Tertiary Care Compared To Three…

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Recent Findings from NEOMED Has Provided New Information about Medicare and Medicaid (Patient Insurance Profiles: A Tertiary Care Compared To Three Freestanding Emergency Departments)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Current study results on Medicare and Medicaid have been published. According to news reporting out of Rootstown, Ohio, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "It has been speculated that freestanding emergency departments (FEDs) draw more affluent, better-insured patients away from urban hospital EDs. It is believed that this leaves urban hospital-based EDs less financially secure."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from NEOMED, "We examined whether the distribution of patients with four types of insurance (self-pay, Medicaid, Medicare, and private) at the main ED changed after opening three affiliated FEDs, and whether the insurance type distribution was different between main ED and FEDs and between individual FEDs. A retrospective analysis of insurance status of all patients presenting to our EDs from July 2006 through August 2013. Insurance was divided into self-pay, Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance across three time periods, which reflect the sequential opening of each FED. Insurance types for each facility were compared for individual time periods and across time periods. chi(2) was used to analyze the data. In the three studied time frames (periods B, C, and D), there were less privately insured patients and more self-pay, Medicaid, and Medicare patients at the main than at each FED (p < 0.001). Insurance types were significantly different between each of the three FEDs and the main ED (p < 0.001) and between each of the three FEDs (p < 0.001). There were less privately insured patients and more self-pay, Medicaid, and Medicare patients at the main ED compared to the FEDs. Privately insured patients decreased at both the FEDs and main ED during the study."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Insurance distribution was significantly different between the main ED, and three FEDs, and between individual FEDs."

For more information on this research see: Patient Insurance Profiles: A Tertiary Care Compared To Three Freestanding Emergency Departments. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016;51(4):466-470. Journal of Emergency Medicine can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, 360 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010-1710, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Emergency Medicine - www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-emergency-medicine/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E.L. Simon, Northeastern Ohio Med Univ NEOMED, Rootstown, OH, United States. Additional authors for this research include G. Griffin, K. Orlik, Z.Y. Jia, D. Hayslip, D. Kobe and N. Jouriles.

Keywords for this news article include: Rootstown, Ohio, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health Policy, Medicare, Medicaid, Hospital, NEOMED.