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Reducing Frictions in Healthcare Access: The ActionHealth NYC Experiment for Undocumented Immigrants / Jonathan Gruber, Adrienne Sabety, Rishi Sood, Jin Yung Bae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruber, Jonathan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29838.
- NBER working paper series no. w29838
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- In 2016, New York City designed and implemented an intervention reducing frictions in accessing safety-net care: randomly making initial primary care appointments for 2,428 undocumented immigrants. We leverage a novel survey-administrative data linkage to show that the program resulted in a more efficient allocation of care. The program increased self-reported access to primary care, leading to a 21% fall in emergency department (ED) use. This effect was driven by high-risk individuals whose ED visits fell by 42% on average. Among those visiting sponsored clinics, chronic condition diagnoses and preventive screens increased, positively affecting long-run health.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2022.
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