2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 5,826 634 11.5 10.4-12.5 5,192 88.5 87.5-89.6
Medicaid Region 6 760 79 10.3 7.9-13.2 681 89.7 86.8-92.1
GENDER
Male 352 33 10.5 7.0-15.4 319 89.5 84.6-93.0
Female 408 46 10.1 7.3-13.8 362 89.9 86.2-92.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 503 44 8.9 6.3-12.5 459 91.1 87.5-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 173 22 10.5 6.4-16.9 151 89.5 83.1-93.6
Other 84 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 234 31 12.6 8.5-18.4 203 87.4 81.6-91.5
45-64 276 40 13.1 9.4-17.9 236 86.9 82.1-90.6
65+ 240 *** *** *** 233 98.1 95.3-99.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 309 39 11.8 8.2-16.8 270 88.2 83.2-91.8
Some Post-H.S. 218 18 8.5 5.0-14.1 200 91.5 85.9-95.0
College Graduate 230 22 9.6 6.0-15.0 208 90.4 85.0-94.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 308 49 14.9 10.5-20.6 259 85.1 79.4-89.5
$50,000+ 269 15 6.1 3.4-10.6 254 93.9 89.4-96.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 166 14 9.2 5.3-15.6 152 90.8 84.4-94.7

Back to Health Care Access.

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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 14OCT21.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts