Medicaid Expansion and Overall Mortality Among Women With Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to improve access to care and reduce health disparities. Its association with breast cancer mortality and related disparities remains unclear.

Objectives

To evaluate the association between Medicaid expansion and overall mortality among women with breast cancer and to assess whether survival differs by race and ethnicity, disease stage, income, and treatment modality.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, hospital-based cohort study used a National Cancer Database cohort of 1 595 845 women aged 40 to 64 years with breast cancer who received a diagnosis from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2021. States were classified as either Medicaid expansion or no

SUBMITTER: Akinyemi O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12848628 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature