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SUBMITTER: Pourat N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4499851 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pourat Nadereh N Davis Anna C AC Chen Xiao X Vrungos Shelley S Kominski Gerald F GF
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20150701 7
The expansion of health insurance to millions of Americans through the Affordable Care Act has given rise to concerns about increased use of emergency department (ED) and hospital services by previously uninsured populations. Prior research has demonstrated that continuity with a regular source of primary care is associated with lower use of these services and with greater patient satisfaction. We assessed the impact of a policy to increase patients' adherence to an individual primary care provi ...[more]