-
Inquiry J Health Car · Jan 1990
The effect of office visit copayments on preventive care services in an HMO.
- D C Cherkin, L Grothaus, and E H Wagner.
- Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, WA 98101-1448.
- Inquiry J Health Car. 1990 Jan 1;27(1):24-38.
AbstractWe examined the impact of a $5 office visit copayment on use of preventive care services by Washington State enrollees in a health maintenance organization. Utilization data were compared for 30,415 State enrollees and 21,633 enrollees without copayments who were enrolled 12 months before and after the start of copayments. Copayments resulted in a 14% decrease in physical examinations but did not significantly affect immunization rates for young children, cancer screening tests received by women, or medication use by persons with cardiovascular disease. For employed populations small copayments appear to have little impact on the most valuable types of preventive care services.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..