2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost?

View results for a demographic group:
 Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,279 647 15.9 14.7-17.3 3,632 84.1 82.7-85.3
Medicaid Region 4 575 87 15.2 12.3-18.8 488 84.8 81.2-87.7
GENDER
Male 264 36 13.9 9.9-19.2 228 86.1 80.8-90.1
Female 311 51 16.5 12.4-21.6 260 83.5 78.4-87.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 342 40 12.0 8.7-16.4 302 88.0 83.6-91.3
Non-Hispanic Black 139 25 20.6 13.9-29.4 114 79.4 70.6-86.1
Other 94 22 20.0 12.9-29.7 72 80.0 70.3-87.1
AGE
18-44 238 44 17.9 13.2-23.8 194 82.1 76.2-86.8
45-64 179 32 16.2 11.3-22.8 147 83.8 77.2-88.7
65+ 149 11 7.4 3.8-14.0 138 92.6 86.0-96.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 166 40 20.7 14.9-27.9 126 79.3 72.1-85.1
Some Post-H.S. 151 30 18.4 12.7-25.9 121 81.6 74.1-87.3
College Graduate 255 17 6.7 4.1-10.8 238 93.3 89.2-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 197 45 23.4 17.4-30.6 152 76.6 69.4-82.6
$50,000+ 241 24 10.7 7.0-16.0 217 89.3 84.0-93.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 131 18 12.3 7.6-19.4 113 87.7 80.6-92.4

Back to Health Care Access.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 09SEP20.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts