Effect of Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care among Low-Income Adults with Behavioral Health Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of Medicaid expansions on health insurance coverage and access to care among low-income adults with behavioral health conditions.

Data sources/study setting

Nine years (2004-2012) of individual-level cross-sectional data from a restricted-access version of National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Study design

A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design comparing outcomes among residents in 14 states that implemented Medicaid expansions for low-income adults under the Section §1115 waiver with those residing in the rest of the country.

Data collection/extraction methods

The analytic sample includes low-income adult respondents with household incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level who have a behavioral heal

SUBMITTER: Wen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693853 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature