Table 8. Selected data for Medicaid child enrollees in disabled cash and disabled noncash (noninstitutionalized) group: Georgia and New York, 1982; California and Michigan, 1983.
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Disabled cash | Disabled noncash | Disabled cash | Disabled cash | Disabled noncash | Disabled cash | Disabled noncash | |
Mean length of enrollment in months for study year | 10.7 | 7.6 | 10.8 | 10.3 | 8.2 | 9.4 | 5.6 |
Percent male enrollees | 57 | 57 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 59 | 58 |
Age: | |||||||
Under 1 year | (2) | 5 | 2 | (2) | 3 | 3 | 13 |
1-4 years | 10 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
5-9 years | 18 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 8 |
10-14 years | 22 | 16 | 23 | 19 | 5 | 26 | 16 |
15-18 years | 26 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 30 |
19-20 years | 24 | 25 | 19 | 29 | 51 | 18 | 25 |
Percent using any Medicaid service | 89 | 76 | 85 | 86 | 90 | 81 | 72 |
Percent using inpatient hospital services | 14 | 23 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 31 |
Hospital days per user | 13 | 70 | 13 | 14 | 31 | 20 | 93 |
Percent using physician/ambulatory care | 74 | 62 | 73 | 77 | 77 | 75 | 49 |
Physician/ambulatory care visits per user | 13 | 31 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 17 | 32 |
Percent using dental services | 36 | 22 | 27 | 32 | 26 | 26 | 14 |
Dental visits per user | — | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Percent using prescription drugs | 65 | 47 | 67 | 66 | 70 | 49 | 28 |
Prescriptions per user | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 11 |
Percent using long-term care | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Annual expenditure per enrollee: | |||||||
All services | $2,314 | $13,362 | $1,694 | $1,347 | $4,120 | $1,956 | $9,715 |
Inpatient hospital | 1,190 | 11,399 | 1,085 | 786 | 3,120 | 1,050 | 8,969 |
Physician/ambulatory | 285 | 791 | 129 | 99 | 188 | 603 | 460 |
Long-term care | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Other | 839 | 1,172 | 480 | 462 | 812 | 303 | 286 |
Because Georgia had only 41 children in the disabled noncash—noninstitutionalized group in 1982, data for this group are not presented.
Less than 1 percent.
NOTE: Data were calculated using person-years.
SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Research and Demonstrations: Data from the Medicaid Tape-to-Tape project, 1982 and 1983.