Using Administrative Data To Monitor Access, Identify Disparities, and Assess Performance of the Safety Net: Figure 10

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Figure 10. Emergency Department Profile, Medicaid and Commercial Patients, Missouri, Ages 0-17, 2000

Pie charts comparing Medicaid and commercial patients. Go to Text Description [D] for details.

[D] As with hospital discharge analysis, ED records can produce results that are intuitive to policymakers. For example, in the State of Missouri, for children ages 0-17, more than 62 percent of ED visits by Medicaid patients were "preventable or avoidable" (i.e., non-emergent, emergent-primary care treatable, or emergent-ED care needed-preventable/avoidable). For children with commercial coverage in Missouri, only 43 percent were "preventable/avoidable."

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