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Factors associated with hospital preference among rural Medicaid beneficiaries

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  • Chul-Young Roh

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This study explores the reason rural Medicaid beneficiaries bypass their local rural hospitals even though their local rural hospitals provide the healthcare services that patients are seeking. Conditional logit regression was used to identify the factors that influence rural patients to bypass their local rural hospitals. This study analysed 225,142 hospitalisations of rural Medicaid beneficiaries, controlling for characteristics of patients and hospitals and the distance between local rural hospitals and patients' residences. Results show that rural Medicaid beneficiaries were influenced to choose their hospitals by a combination of hospital attributes, including the number of beds, the number of services, accreditation, network, distance and patient characteristics including health status, total charges, race, gender and age. Policy implications are provided for rural healthcare management and policy from three perspectives: the healthcare providers, the rural community, and the government.

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  • Chul-Young Roh, 2007. "Factors associated with hospital preference among rural Medicaid beneficiaries," International Journal of Public Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3/4), pages 316-327.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpubp:v:2:y:2007:i:3/4:p:316-327
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