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Gatekeeping the emergency department: impact of a Medicaid primary care case management program
R E Hurley1, D A Freund, D E Taylor
1Department of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Health Care Management Review
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
This article presents the impact of a primary care case management program on reducing the use of the emergency department (ED) as a source of nonemergency care. Medicaid-eligible persons enrolled with one of four different types of case managers. The emergency department use of enrollees is contrasted with that of persons remaining in traditional Medicaid.