Definition: Percentage of emergency department visits among children ages 0-17, by payer expected to cover the greatest share of expenses for treatment (e.g., in 2020, Medi-Cal was the expected source of payment for 63.3% of emergency department visits among California children).
Data Source: California Dept. of Health Care Access and Information custom tabulation (Feb. 2021).
Footnote: Data are based on visits, not children; if a child has more than one visit, each visit is reported. Visits resulting in same-hospital admission are not reported here (see kidsdata.org's Hospital Discharges indicators). Detailed descriptions of payment sources are available from the Dept. of Health Care Access and Information. County-level data reflect the patient's county of residence, not the county in which the visit occurred. Cases with unknown county of residence are included in California totals. Data are excluded for cases of patients with erroneous birth dates and for erroneous, unknown, or unreported sources of payment. The notation S refers to numbers and percentages that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 11 visits with that expected source of payment, and to percentages that have been suppressed because the value was less than 0.1%. N/A means that data are not available.
