2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Health Care Access

Do you have one person or a group of doctors that you think of as your personal health care provider?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes, only one Yes, more than one No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,061 2,101 51.4 49.2-53.6 1,374 31.7 29.7-33.7 586 16.9 15.3-18.6
Medicaid Region 5 971 514 49.9 44.9-54.9 319 34.4 29.6-39.7 138 15.7 12.5-19.4
GENDER
Male 408 211 49.8 42.2-57.5 120 32.3 25.0-40.6 77 17.9 13.1-23.9
Female 563 303 50.0 43.5-56.4 199 36.5 30.3-43.1 61 13.6 9.8-18.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 409 221 50.5 44.1-56.8 141 35.7 29.6-42.2 47 13.9 10.0-19.0
Non-Hispanic Black 164 *** *** *** *** *** *** 15 9.0 4.4-17.4
Other 383 *** *** *** *** *** *** 72 29.8 20.6-40.9
AGE
18-44 318 152 45.7 38.1-53.5 78 27.2 20.2-35.5 88 27.1 21.0-34.2
45-64 344 200 53.6 44.7-62.4 106 35.9 27.4-45.4 38 10.4 6.4-16.6
65+ 293 150 52.9 42.8-62.8 131 45.2 35.4-55.4 12 1.8 0.7- 4.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 318 156 46.5 37.6-55.6 96 32.8 24.5-42.3 66 20.7 14.8-28.2
Some Post-H.S. 301 159 51.0 42.4-59.6 101 32.9 24.6-42.4 41 16.0 10.9-23.0
College Graduate 349 198 53.9 46.5-61.2 120 38.3 31.3-45.8 31 7.8 5.0-12.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 359 173 39.6 31.4-48.5 119 40.3 31.6-49.6 67 20.1 14.3-27.6
$50,000+ 390 226 57.0 49.9-63.7 125 31.0 24.9-37.8 39 12.1 8.2-17.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 *** *** *** *** *** *** 31 14.6 8.8-23.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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