ArticleJournal of health care for the poor and underserved2014
Emergency department charges for asthma-related outpatient visits by insurance status.
Article in Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Social vulnerability and asthma-related emergency medical services in Illinois.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Cost variation and revisit rate for adult patients with asthma presenting to the emergency department.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2022Observational
- Evaluating the Financial Sustainability of the School-Based Telemedicine Asthma Management Program.Population health management · 2021Article
- The economic burden of medical treatment of children with asthma in China.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Ozone-related asthma emergency department visits in the US in a warming climate.Environmental research · 2020Article
- A Clinically Integrated mHealth App and Practice Model for Collecting Patient-Reported Outcomes between Visits for Asthma Patients: Implementation and Feasibility.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- The Global Impact of Asthma in Adult Populations.Annals of global health · 2019Review
- A missed primary care appointment correlates with a subsequent emergency department visit among children with asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2017Article
- Core Components for a Clinically Integrated mHealth App for Asthma Symptom Monitoring.Applied clinical informatics · 2017Article
- Real-world health care utilization in asthma patients using albuterol sulfate inhalation aerosol (ProAirJournal of asthma and allergy · 2017Article
- Mepolizumab (Nucala) For Severe Eosinophilic Asthma.P & T : a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management · 2016Article
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- Evaluation of an Asthma Home Visiting Program in the State of Illinois, 2020-2023.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
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Abstract
Though Americans make 1.8 million asthma-related outpatient visits to the emergency department (ED) annually, little is known about the episodic charges for asthma care in the ED. We therefore sought to assess the bills patients could face for acute asthma incidents by examining hospital charges for asthma-related outpatient ED visits. We performed a nationwide, cross-sectional study of 2.9 million weighted asthma-related outpatient ED visits from 2006-2008 using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. We found that the average charge for an outpatient ED visit was $1,502 (95% CI $1,493-$1,511). The charges did not vary significantly by insurance group but did increase significantly with age. Our results indicate that the financial burden of ED care for asthma may take a severe toll on low-income populations who have limited ability to pay, especially patients who must pay undiscounted charges, including the uninsured and those on high-deductible health plans.
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