Medicaid Expansion and Mortality Among Persons Who Were Formerly Incarcerated.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Since 2014, Medicaid expansion has been implemented in many states across the US, increasing health care access among vulnerable populations, including formerly incarcerated people who experience higher mortality rates than the general population.

Objective

To examine population-level association of Medicaid expansion with postrelease mortality from all causes, unintentional drug overdoses, opioid overdoses, polydrug overdoses, suicides, and homicides among formerly incarcerated people in Rhode Island (RI), which expanded Medicaid, compared with North Carolina (NC), which did not expand Medicaid during the study period.

Design, setting, and participants

A cohort study was conducted using incarceration release data from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2018,

SUBMITTER: Perera PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409152 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature