Co-insurance and health care utilization in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a discontinuity regression approach
Abstract Background Co-insurance rates in Japan decrease when patients turn 70 years of age. We aim to compare changes in medical demand for Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at age 70 prior to 2014, when there was a reduction in co-insurance rates from 30 to 10%, with changes in medi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal for Equity in Health |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-0920-7 |