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Table 2 Primary payers among women with breast cancer in low, middle and high poverty neighborhoods: age-adjusted prevalence estimates and standardized prevalence ratios

From: Mediation of the effects of living in extremely poor neighborhoods by health insurance: breast cancer care and survival in California, 1996 to 2011

Neighborhood poverty

    

  By primary payer

Sample

Prevalence

PR

(95% CI)

Low Poverty

  Uninsured

183

.086

1.00

 

  Medicaid

  25

.012

1.00

 

  Medicare

525

.263

1.00

 

  Private

1,367   

.638

1.00

 

Middle Poverty

  Uninsured

226

.108

1.26

(1.04, 1.52)

  Medicaid

130

.062

5.17

(3.60, 7.42)

  Medicare

577

.275

1.05

(0.94, 1.17)

  Private

1,167   

.555

0.87

(0.83, 0.91)

High Poverty

  Uninsured

276

.133

1.55

(1.30, 1.85)

  Medicaid

310

.151

12.58

(9.28, 17.05)

  Medicare

672

.307

1.17

(1.06, 1.29)

  Private

842

.408

0.64

(0.60, 0.68)

  1. Notes. PR = prevalence ratio, CI = confidence interval. A prevalence ratio of 1.00 was the between-place baseline. Middle and high poverty neighborhoods were compared to low poverty neighborhoods on payer prevalence estimates.
  2. Bolded PRs were statistically significant at p < .05.