Effect of Co-payment on the Use of Medical Services by Male and Female Prisoners

Hyde, Roberta; Brumfield, Beverly

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“…In one study, use of co-payments diminished the use of sick-call visits among male prisoners by 35%. 38 We are unaware of any recent studies that have assessed use of co-payments across state prison systems, but a 1996 survey found that co-payments were implemented or approved in 29 states, and introduction of legislation for prison co-payment was pending in an additional nine states. In states requiring a co-payment, fees ranged between two and five dollars.…”

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Disease Prevalence and Use of Health Care among a National Sample of Black and White Male State Prisoners

Rosen¹,

Hammond²,

Wohl³

et al. 2012

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U.S. prisons have a court-affirmed mandate to provide health care to prisoners. Given this mandate, we sought to determine whether use of prison health care was equitable across race using a nationally-representative sample of Black and White male state prisoners. We first examined the prevalence of health conditions by race. Then, across all health conditions and for each of 15 conditions, we compared the proportion of Black and White male prisoners with the condition who received health care. For most conditions including cancer, heart disease, and liver-related disorders, the age-adjusted prevalence of disease among Blacks was lower than among Whites (p<.05). Blacks were also modestly more likely than Whites to use health care for existing conditions (p<.05), particularly hypertension, cerebral vascular accident/brain injury, cirrhosis, flu-like illness, and injury. The observed racial disparities in health and health care use are different from those among non-incarcerated populations.

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Disease Prevalence and Use of Health Care among a National Sample of Black and White Male State Prisoners

Rosen¹,

Hammond²,

Wohl³

et al. 2012

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“…There has not been a nationwide assessment of jail costs and causation, but a survey of governmental correspondence, budgets, and newspaper reporting reveals that local governments are reporting sharp increases in medical costs (Clouse, 2004;Dorgan, 2004;Garden, Shum, Buswell, Caverley, & Rees, 2003;Legislative Analyst's Office, 2001;Martin, 2004;Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff 's Office, 2001). Strategies to reduce medical costs in local jails are a top priority for numerous jurisdictions and have included privatization, charging inmates co-pay fees, and purchasing inmate medical insurance (Allen & Pruett, 1996;Clark, 1994;Garden et al, 2003;Hyde & Brumfield, 2003;Szostak, 2002;Weiss, 1994).…”

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Jail Health Assessment Practices: An Analysis of National Trends as Compared to National Commission on Correctional Health Care Recommendations

Miller

2006

Journal of Correctional Health Care

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This article examines current trends in jail health assessment practices and their financial implications. A brief historical perspective of the evolution of jail health standards is presented as a preface to analyzing current practices nationally. A survey of 509 jails across the United States suggests that health assessments are conducted aggressively in spite of national guideline recommendations, resulting in a significant amount of unnecessary spending. Despite the fact that 48% of jail inmates will be released within 1 week of incarceration, a significant percentage of jails requires that health assessments be performed within days of incarceration. These health assessment practices are evaluated in light of national practice recommendations, and implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed

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“…Another technique borrowed from the private sector (and from Medicare) is prisoner copayments. This has been shown by Hyde and Brumfield (2003) to be effective. They examine the initiation of small copayments ($3.00 for a sick care visit and $2.00 for a prescription) in Idaho prisons in 1998.…”

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Prison health care: is contracting out healthy?

Bedard

Frech

2009

Health Economics

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US prison health care has recently been in the news and in the courts. A particular issue is whether prisons should contract out for health care. Contracting out has been growing over the past few decades. The stated motivation for this change ranges from a desire to improve the prison healthcare system, sometimes in response to a court mandate, to a desire to reduce costs. This study is a first attempt to quantify the impact of this change on inmate health. As morbidity measures are not readily obtainable, we focus on mortality. More specifically, we use a panel of state prisons from 1979 to 1990 and a fixed effects Poisson model to estimate the change in mortality associated with increase in the percentage of medical personnel employed under contract. In contrast to the first stated aim of contracting, we find that a 13% increase in percentage of medical personnel employed under contract increases mortality by 1.3%.

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Effect of Co-payment on the Use of Medical Services by Male and Female Prisoners

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Disease Prevalence and Use of Health Care among a National Sample of Black and White Male State Prisoners

Disease Prevalence and Use of Health Care among a National Sample of Black and White Male State Prisoners

Jail Health Assessment Practices: An Analysis of National Trends as Compared to National Commission on Correctional Health Care Recommendations

Prison health care: is contracting out healthy?

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