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Insurance coverage determines children's hospital transfers
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31992
Subject(s) - private insurance , health insurance , actuarial science , business , pediatric hospital , health care , medical emergency , medicine , family medicine , pediatrics , economic growth , economics
Insurance, or rather the lack thereof, plays a pivotal role in a hospital's decision to transfer or admit pediatric children presenting with mental health disorders, according to research published this month in Pediatric Emergency Care . University of California, Davis researchers found that children without insurance are more than three times as likely to be transferred than those with private insurance.