(The exception may be children in foster care, who are almost all eligible for Medicaid, but whose utilization rates are higher than other Medicaid-enrolled children [ 47]).
In theory, insurance status (Medicaid participation versus having private insurance) should not be expected to influence therapy utilization for infants and toddlers eligible for early intervention since eligibility for early intervention is not contingent on health insurance access.
Given the current financial crisis of early intervention programming [ 17] understanding the influence of source of insurance on therapy utilization among children eligible for early intervention has important implications for potentially improving efficiency of early intervention service delivery.
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Understanding social disparities in utilization of therapy services among VLBW children eligible for early intervention has important policy and programmatic implications for improving outreach and therapeutic service delivery to high-risk families.
We identified the patient cohort, who were VA primary care users and also eligible for Medicare in the baseline year of FY2000 and tracked their outpatient utilization obtained from both VA and Medicare sources for the four subsequent years (FY2001-FY2004).
For annual indicators, we averaged utilization rates for 1994 and 1995; the denominators were individuals eligible for each calendar year.
Observational studies that identified demographic variables, measures of medical comorbidity, medical conditions, or patterns of health service utilization that were correlated with impairment in basic ADLs were eligible for inclusion.
The cobas® 4800 BRAF V600 test has limited utilization as it detects only p.V600E mutations losing 16.3% of patients eligible for a therapy with vemurafenib.
Lastly, we could not assess the health care utilization patterns among Reserve or National Guard personnel since they are only eligible for DoD health care when they are on active status.
Ontario's administrative health and immunization databases were used to identify girls eligible for free HPV vaccination in 2007 2011 and to ascertain individual-level characteristics of cohort members (socio-demographics, vaccination history, health care utilization, medical history).
