Medicaid Expansion And Outpatient Cardiovascular Care Use Among Low-Income Nonelderly Adults, 2012-15.

ABSTRACT: Adults with lower socioeconomic status have a disproportionately higher burden of cardiovascular disease. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which went into effect January 1, 2014, in adopting states, led to an expansion of health insurance coverage for low-income adults. To understand whether Medicaid expansion was associated with increased access to outpatient cardiovascular care in expansion states, we examined Medicaid Analytic eXtract administrative claims data for nonelderly adult beneficiaries from the period 2012-15 for two states that expanded Medicaid eligibility (New Jersey and Minnesota) and two states that did not (Georgia and Tennessee) and calculated population-level rates of cardiovascular care use. There was a 38.1 percent greater increase in expansion state

SUBMITTER: Khatana SAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10923246 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature