Working Paper: NBER ID: w13137
Authors: Carole Roan Gresenz; Jeannette Rogowski; Jos J. Escarce
Abstract: Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit during each month of an uninsured episode. We find that the ultimate length of an individual's episode of being uninsured bears relatively little on individuals' use of healthcare in any particular month and that the probability of health care utilization rises during the first year of the episode, with more use in the second six months of the year compared to the first six months.
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JEL Codes: D1; D19; I19
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| duration of uninsured episodes (I13) | healthcare utilization (I11) |
| months since the inception of the episode (Y60) | healthcare utilization (I11) |
| first year of uninsured episode (I13) | healthcare utilization (I11) |
| second six months of uninsured episode (I13) | healthcare utilization (I11) |
| shorter episodes of being uninsured (I13) | healthcare expenditures (H51) |
| shorter episodes of being uninsured (I13) | office-based visits (L84) |