Medicine, Health Care<\/a> ACA’s Medicaid Expansion Associated with\u2026<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
Published: January 25, 2018.
Released by JAMA Surgery<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
Bottom Line:<\/b>\u00a0The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) Medicaid expansion was associated with significant increases in insurance coverage among patients with serious surgical conditions such as appendicitis or aortic aneurysm, and a greater likelihood of these patients receiving timely, optimal care.<\/p>\n
Why The Research Is Interesting:\u00a0<\/b> Lack of insurance coverage has been associated with delays in seeking care, more complicated diseases at the time of diagnosis, and a decreased likelihood of receiving optimal surgical care. The ACA’s Medicaid expansion has increased coverage among millions of low-income Americans, but its effect on care for common surgical conditions has not been known.<\/p>\n
Who and When<\/b>: 293,529 patients between the ages of 18 and 64 years with appendicitis, inflammation of the gallbladder, diverticulitis, peripheral artery disease or aortic aneurysm admitted to a hospital in 27 states that expanded Medicaid or 15 states that didn’t to compare outcomes before (2010-2013) and after Medicaid expansion (2014-2015)<\/p>\n
What (Study Measures)<\/b>: State adoption of Medicaid expansion (exposure); presentation of patients with early, uncomplicated disease and optimal surgical management of their conditions (outcomes)<\/p>\n
How (Study Design)<\/b>: This was an observational study. Researchers were not\u00a0intervening for purposes of the study and they cannot control all the natural differences that could explain study findings.<\/p>\n
Authors:<\/b> Andrew P. Loehrer, M.D., M.P.H., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, and coauthors.<\/p>\n
Results:<\/b>\u00a0 ACA’s Medicaid expansion was associated with increased insurance coverage of patients and improvement in receiving timely and optimal care for five common surgical conditions.<\/p>\n
Study Limitations:<\/b>\u00a0Data are vulnerable to coding errors and study findings may not be generalizable for other medical conditions.<\/p>\n
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Medicine, Health Care ACA’s Medicaid Expansion Associated with\u2026 Published: January 25, 2018.Released by JAMA Surgery\u00a0\u00a0 Bottom Line:\u00a0The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) Medicaid expansion was associated with significant increases in insurance coverage among patients with serious surgical conditions such as appendicitis or aortic aneurysm, and a greater likelihood of these patients receiving timely, optimal care. Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}