The Relationship of Insurance Status, Hospital Ownership, and Teaching Status with Interhospital Transfers in California in 2000

Abstract

In 2000, the likelihood of a hospital admitting a transfer patient appears to have been affected by both the patient's insurance status and the hospital's ownership. In general, good payer patients were more likely to be transferred than were poor payer patients, with poor payer transfer patients more likely to be admitted to publicly owned hospitals.