2020 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?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,826 634 11.5 10.4-12.5 5,192 88.5 87.5-89.6
Medicaid Region 4 1,110 113 10.7 8.7-13.0 997 89.3 87.0-91.3
GENDER
Male 506 47 8.8 6.3-12.0 459 91.2 88.0-93.7
Female 604 66 12.4 9.6-16.0 538 87.6 84.0-90.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 680 61 10.5 8.0-13.6 619 89.5 86.4-92.0
Non-Hispanic Black 240 23 9.5 6.1-14.7 217 90.5 85.3-93.9
Other 190 29 13.1 8.6-19.5 161 86.9 80.5-91.4
AGE
18-44 447 68 14.9 11.6-18.9 379 85.1 81.1-88.4
45-64 368 33 9.1 6.1-13.4 335 90.9 86.6-93.9
65+ 277 *** *** *** 267 96.9 93.8-98.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 290 40 13.0 9.1-18.3 250 87.0 81.7-90.9
Some Post-H.S. 254 40 14.7 10.7-20.0 214 85.3 80.0-89.3
College Graduate 563 33 5.9 4.1- 8.4 530 94.1 91.6-95.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 349 65 19.8 15.3-25.2 284 80.2 74.8-84.7
$50,000+ 528 25 5.5 3.5- 8.6 503 94.5 91.4-96.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 219 22 8.8 5.6-13.6 197 91.2 86.4-94.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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.

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