TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gresenz,Carole Roan
AU  - Rogowski,Jeannette
AU  - Escarce,José J.
TI  - Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13137
PY  - 2007
Y2  - May 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13137
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13137.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Carole Gresenz
RAND Corporation
1200 South Hayes Street
Arlington, Virginia 22202-5050
E-Mail: gresenz@rand.org

Jeannette A. Rogowski
Department of Health Systems and Policy
UMDNJ - School of Public Health
683 Hoes Lane West, Room 332
Piscataway, NJ  08854
Tel: 732/235-9759
Fax: 732/235-4004
E-Mail: rogowsje@umdnj.edu

Jose Escarce
UCLA Med-GIM-HSR
911 Broxton Place
Box 951736
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1736
Tel: 310/794-2842
Fax: 310/451-7062
E-Mail: escarce@rand.org
AB  - Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit during each month of an uninsured episode. We find that the ultimate length of an individual's episode of being uninsured bears relatively little on individuals' use of healthcare in any particular month and that the probability of health care utilization rises during the first year of the episode, with more use in the second six months of the year compared to the first six months.
ER  -