Neighborhood Opportunities and Pediatric Health Care Utilization: Implications for Medicaid Managed Care

The results corroborate that health care utilization varies by neighborhood opportunity levels. Managed care organizations can use the COI to address disparities in pediatric beneficiaries' health care utilization. Findings underscore the differences in health care utilization that may be a basis for researchers, policy analysts, and decision makers to further investigate underlying unmet needs that affect pediatric health care utilization in lower opportunity neighborhoods.