Impact of insurance coverage on utilization of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention

Rupa R. Patel; Leandro Mena; Amy Nunn; Timothy McBride; Laura C. Harrison; Catherine E. Oldenburg; Jingxia Liu; Kenneth H. Mayer; Philip A. Chan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178737

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Impact of insurance coverage on utilization of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention

Rupa R. Patel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Rupa R. Patel, Philip A. Chan

* E-mail: rupapatel@wustl.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-7036

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Leandro Mena ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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Amy Nunn ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Timothy McBride ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Brown School and Center for Health Economics and Policy, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Laura C. Harrison ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Catherine E. Oldenburg ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Jingxia Liu,

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Kenneth H. Mayer ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Philip A. Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rupa R. Patel, Philip A. Chan

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Impact of insurance coverage on utilization of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention

Rupa R. Patel,
Leandro Mena,
Amy Nunn,
Timothy McBride,
Laura C. Harrison,
Catherine E. Oldenburg,
Jingxia Liu,
Kenneth H. Mayer,
Philip A. Chan

Published: May 30, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178737

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