Relationship of Affordable Care Act Implementation to Emergency Department Utilization Among Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

The 2010 provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) extended eligibility for health insurance for young adults aged 19 to 25 years. It is unclear, however, how expanded coverage changes health care behavior and promotes efficient use of emergency department (ED) services. Our objective was to use population-level emergency department data to characterize any changes in diagnoses seen in ED among young adults since the implementation of the ACA dependent coverage expansion.

Methods

We performed a difference-in-differences analysis of 2009 to 2011 ED visits from California, Florida, and New York, using all-capture administrative data to determine how the use of ED services changed for clinical categories after the ACA provision among youn

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Boussard T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917390 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature