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SUBMITTER: Progovac AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5942884 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Progovac Ana M AM Cook Benjamin Lê BL Mullin Brian O BO McDowell Alex A Sanchez R Maria Jose MJ Wang Ye Y Creedon Timothy B TB Schuster Mark A MA
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20180301 3
Health care utilization patterns for gender minority Medicare beneficiaries (those who are transgender or gender nonbinary people) are largely unknown. We identified gender minority beneficiaries using a diagnosis-code algorithm and compared them to a 5 percent random sample of non-gender minority beneficiaries from the period 2009-14 in terms of mental health and chronic diseases, use of preventive and mental health care, hospitalizations, and emergency department (ED) visits. Gender minority b ...[more]