Impact of the Affordable Care Act on access to accredited facilities for cancer treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine differential changes in receipt of surgery at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer centers (NCI-CCC) and Commission on Cancer (CoC) accredited hospitals for patients with cancer more likely to be newly eligible for coverage under Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance expansions, relative to those less likely to have been impacted by the ACA.

Data sources and study setting

Pennsylvania Cancer Registry (PCR) for 2010-2019 linked with discharge records from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).

Study design

Outcomes include whether cancer surgery was performed at an NCI-CCC or a CoC-accredited hospital. We conducted a difference-in-differences analysis, estimating linear probability models for each out

SUBMITTER: Sabik LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11622264 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature