Study Findings on Health and Medicine Described by Researchers at Hofstra University (Relationship between Patient Experience Scores and Health Insurance): Health and Medicine

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2022 NOV 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on agriculture. According to news reporting originating from Hempstead, New York, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “(1) Background: the patient experience may be a performance indicator in value-based reimbursement.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Hofstra University: “Accordingly, providers have an incentive to understand factors that affect their patients’ experiences. This study evaluated the relationship between health insurance type and patient experience ratings. (2) Methods: individual-level demographic, health/healthcare, and patient experience data were extracted from the Full-Year Consolidated Data File of the 2019 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys. A logistic regression was used to evaluate whether how persons-included in this study’s analytic sample (aged 18 and over with complete covariate information)-rated the healthcare they received from all their providers was associated with their health insurance types controlling for covariates. (3) Results: relative to people 18-64 years of age with private health insurance, people 18-64 years of age without health insurance were less likely to rank their healthcare as a 9 or 10-where a 10 indicates the best possible care-(OR: 0.69; * * p* * = 0.015) while people aged 65 years or over with Medicare (OR: 1.34; * * p* * = 0.002) or with Medicare/private health insurance (OR: 1.48; * * p* * < 0.001) were more likely to rank their healthcare as a 9 or 10.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Select health insurance types were associated with how patients rate their healthcare. Stakeholders could use this information to create programs aimed to improve patient experience.”

For more information on this research see: Relationship between Patient Experience Scores and Health Insurance. Healthcare, 2022,10(2128):2128. (Healthcare - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare). The publisher for Healthcare is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112128.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Walter Markowitz, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, United States. Additional authors for this research include Khadeja Kausar, Edward Coffield.