{"id":55,"date":"2012-03-12T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:33:00","slug":"insurance-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/research\/insurance-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Methods of Improving Utilization of  Health Insurance Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the early findings from the first study showed that majority of the population paid for healthcare with cash. Furthermore, the results revealed that a large portion of the families who could potentially be eligible for free or subsidized health programs were unaware of the health insurance schemes and their eligibility. This finding underscores an important point: a gap in healthcare delivery exists that may be primarily attributed to lack of awareness about existing programs and eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This study will determine the most cost-efficient way to increase awareness and to optimize family enrollment in affordable healthcare insurance programs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/files\/2012\/03\/DSCN5049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"372\" width=\"497\" alt=\"Insurance ad\" src=\"\/indiaroi\/files\/2012\/03\/DSCN5049-636x477.jpg\" title=\"Insurance ad\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151  \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/files\/2012\/03\/DSCN5049-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/files\/2012\/03\/DSCN5049-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for subsidized healthcare insurance - lack of awareness was the most frequently reported barrier for utilizing healthcare insurance <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the early findings from the first study showed that majority of the population paid for healthcare with cash. Furthermore, the results revealed that a large portion of the families who could potentially be eligible for free or subsidized health programs were unaware of the health insurance schemes and their eligibility. This finding underscores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5892,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/503"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/indiaroi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}