Open AccessChanges in Patient Visits After the Implementation of Insurance Billing at a Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic in a Medicaid Expansion State
Author(s) -
Hongkui Jin,
Brandon D.L. Marshall,
Julia Raifman,
Madeline C. Montgomery,
Michaela Maynard,
Philip A. Chan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001014
Subject(s) - medicine , medicaid , confidence interval , logistic regression , odds ratio , poisson regression , sexually transmitted disease , odds , demography , health insurance , family medicine , health care , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , environmental health , syphilis , sociology , economics , economic growth
Medicaid expansion has led to unique opportunities for sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics to improve the sustainability of services by billing insurance. We evaluated changes in patient visits after the implementation of insurance billing at a STD clinic in a Medicaid expansion state.