Lower Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Delayed Access to Care for Infantile Hemangioma, a Cohort Study

What is already known on this topic: Children with Medicaid face greater barriers of access-to-care. Delayed management of complicated infantile hemangiomas compromises outcomes. What this article adds to our knowledge. Lower socioeconomic status is associated with delayed care for infantile hemangioma, but not among children with institutional care-management services. How this information impacts clinical practice and/or changes patient care. Institution-facilitated managed-care programs may moderate socioeconomic disparities in accessing timely specialty care and improve outcomes.