From: Effects of health insurance on patient demand for physician services
Characteristics | All |
Routine Visits Only |
Emergency Visits Only |
Mixture of Visits | One or Less Visits | χ2P |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (4) | (5) | |
Unweighted sample size, N | 47,252 | 22,454 | 1378 | 4530 | 18,890 | |
Mean age, y |
44.46 (11.26) |
46.21 (11.21) |
40.92 (10.45) |
45.59 (11.39) |
41.84 (10.80) | < 0.01 |
Gender | ||||||
Female, % |
48.79 (49.99) |
42.69 (49.46) |
53.50 (49.90) |
37.41 (48.39) |
60.36 (48.92) | < 0.01 |
Male, % |
51.21 (49.99) |
57.31 (49.46) |
46.50 (49.90) |
62.59 (48.39) |
39.64 (48.92) | < 0.01 |
Geographic Region | ||||||
Northeast, % |
17.66 (38.14) |
18.78 (39.06) |
15.44 (36.14) |
18.34 (38.70) |
16.00 (36.66) | < 0.01 |
Midwest, % |
20.81 (40.60) |
21.01 (40.74) |
22.23 (41.60) |
23.29 (42.27) |
19.78 (39.84) | < 0.01 |
South, % |
37.34 (48.37) |
36.33 (48.10) |
42.70 (49.48) |
38.09 (48.57) |
38.26 (48.60) | < 0.01 |
West, % |
24.18 (42.82) |
23.87 (42.63) |
19.63 (39.74) |
20.28 (40.21) |
25.96 (43.84) | < 0.01 |
Insurance Coverage | ||||||
Private insurance, % |
77.44 (41.80) |
84.96 (35.74) |
54.88 (49.78) |
69.83 (45.90) |
69.96 (45.85) | < 0.01 |
Public insurance, % |
11.34 (31.71) |
9.59 (29.44) |
24.37 (42.95) |
23.25 (4224) |
9.93 (29.91) | < 0.01 |
Uninsured, % |
11.21 (31.56) |
5.45 (22.70) |
20.75 (40.57) |
6.922 (25.39) |
20.11 (40.09) | < 0.01 |
Race/Ethnicity | ||||||
White non-Hispanic, % |
61.37 (48.69) |
66.11 (47.34) |
52.24 (49.97) |
62.16 (48.50) |
54.86 (49.76) | < 0.01 |
Black non-Hispanic, % |
11.93 (32.41) |
10.43 (30.56) |
20.32 (40.25) |
15.72 (36.40) |
12.57 (33.15) | < 0.01 |
Other non-Hispanic, % |
9.36 (29.12) |
9.15 (28.82) |
8.17 (27.39) |
6.89 (25.33) |
10.39 (30.51) | < 0.01 |
Hispanic, % |
17.34 (37.86) |
14.31 (35.03) |
19.27 (39.46) |
15.24 (35.94) |
22.18 (41.55) | < 0.01 |
Educational Attainment | ||||||
No degree |
10.11 (30.15) |
7.52 (26.38) |
17.61 (38.11) |
12.20 (32.73) |
12.86 (33.48) | < 0.01 |
High school degree/GED |
26.59 (44.18) |
23.38 (42.33) |
33.69 (47.29) |
28.49 (45.14) |
30.31 (45.96) | < 0.01 |
At least some college |
63.30 (48.20) |
69.09 (46.21) |
48.70 (50.01) |
59.31 (49.13) |
56.83 (49.53) | < 0.01 |