Health Care Utilization by Children With Chronic Illnesses: A Comparison of Medicaid and Employer-insured Managed Care

OBJECTIVES: This study compared utilization of health care services by children with chronic conditions who were insured by either Medicaid or an employer group in 1992 and 1993. Five chronic conditions were selected to illustrate patterns of service use: asthma, attention deficit disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, and sickle cell anemia. METHODOLOGY: Administrative databases were used to develop estimates of health services utilization for children