Table 2.
Primary payers among women with breast cancer in low, middle and high poverty neighborhoods: age-adjusted prevalence estimates and standardized prevalence ratios
|
Neighborhood poverty |
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By primary payer | Sample | Prevalence | PR | (95% CI) |
| Low Poverty | ||||
| Uninsured |
183 |
.086 |
1.00 |
|
| Medicaid |
25 |
.012 |
1.00 |
|
| Medicare |
525 |
.263 |
1.00 |
|
| Private |
1,367 |
.638 |
1.00 |
|
| Middle Poverty | ||||
| Uninsured |
226 |
.108 |
1.26 |
(1.04, 1.52) |
| Medicaid |
130 |
.062 |
5.17 |
(3.60, 7.42) |
| Medicare |
577 |
.275 |
1.05 |
(0.94, 1.17) |
| Private |
1,167 |
.555 |
0.87 |
(0.83, 0.91) |
| High Poverty | ||||
| Uninsured |
276 |
.133 |
1.55 |
(1.30, 1.85) |
| Medicaid |
310 |
.151 |
12.58 |
(9.28, 17.05) |
| Medicare |
672 |
.307 |
1.17 |
(1.06, 1.29) |
| Private | 842 | .408 | 0.64 | (0.60, 0.68) |
Notes. PR = prevalence ratio, CI = confidence interval. A prevalence ratio of 1.00 was the between-place baseline. Middle and high poverty neighborhoods were compared to low poverty neighborhoods on payer prevalence estimates.
Bolded PRs were statistically significant at p < .05.