These included higher rates of visits
for nonemergency care and decreased rates of emergency care and hospitalizations.
Hierarchical multiple regressions were performed
for nonemergency services, ER visits, ear infections, and acute respiratory illnesses, as they were continuous outcome variables.
The hierarchical regressions were significant
for nonemergency visits [final adj. R2 =.15, F (12, 237) = 4.66, p <.01], ER visits [adj. R2 =.15, F (12, 237) = 4.72, p <.01], ear infections [adj. R2 =.05, F (12, 237) = 2.07, p <.01], and acute respiratory illnesses [adj. R2 =.08, F (12, 237) = 2.84, p <.01], such that these full regression models accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in children's health care usage.
In other words, more supportive parents took their children to the doctor
for nonemergency care more often than less supportive parents.
Patients were considered dropouts if they missed 3 consecutive sessions
for nonemergency reasons or wished to terminate treatment at any point.
CareCredit, which can also be used to pay
for nonemergency care, offers financing options of six, 12, 18 or 24 months at no interest on purchases of $ 200 or more.
The authors point out that the eight states that have implemented copayments
for nonemergency ED visits saw no reduction in ED visits by Medicaid patients relative to states that did not implement such copayments.
Ramit Sethi, author of «I Will Teach You to Be Rich,» suggests one solution: designating a sub-savings account
for nonemergency, unplanned expenses.
Not exact matches
No medical attention
for chronic or
nonemergency situations was allowed.
Although a goal of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was to provide Medicaid patients with a source of
nonemergency care outside of hospital emergency departments (EDs), researchers suggest that these newly enrolled patients will likely continue to look to EDs
for treatment of chronic diseases and other
nonemergency issues, despite state attempts to impose fees on ED visits.
But payday loans also can trap borrowers who rely on it
for nonessential,
nonemergency expenses.
Legal decision making refers to the rights of a parent to make all
nonemergency legal decisions
for a child, such as where the child will attend school, the religion that the child will be raised, and personal activities that the child will engage in.
For those children, more supportive parenting was associated with greater use of
nonemergency facilities.
Under conditions of highly supportive parenting, children whose parents had experienced lower socioeconomic conditions received higher rates of outpatient
nonemergency care, including more visits
for treatment of ear infections.