Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points A large population of incarcerated people may be eligible for prerelease and transition services under the new Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity. We estimated the largest relative population increases in Medicaid coverage from the opportunity may be expected in smaller and more rural states. We found that mental illness, hepatitis C, and chronic kidney disease prevalence rates were sufficiently high among incarcerated populations to likely skew overall Medicaid population prevalence of these diseases when prerelease and transition services are expanded, implying the need for planning of additional data exchange and service delivery infrastructure by state Medicaid plans.

Context

As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated

SUBMITTER: Chin ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654758 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature