- Title
- Children's preventive care under two mature Medicaid managed care plans in California.
- First Author
- Lo Sasso, Anthony T
- Date of Pub
- 1998 Summer
- Pages
- 69-83
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Other Authors
- Freund, Deborah A; Gavin, Norma I
- Abstract
- We investigated the extent to which children continuously enrolled in two mature county-organized Medicaid managed care plans for 6, 12, and 24 months received recommended well-child visits and immunizations. We also investigated whether any improvements in compliance were evident during the period 1989-1992. Compliance was low for well-child visits and immunizations at the recommended ages regardless of eligibility group. Although slight improvements in immunizations were made over time, little progress was made in compliance with well-child visits. Continued vigilance is required to achieve the government's goal of 90 percent immunization compliance among 2-year-olds.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Child : Managed Care Programs : Medicaid : California : Evaluation Studies : Human : Multivariate Analysis : Preventive Health Services/utilization : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB2000-102913
