Impact of Recent Medicaid Expansions on Office-Based Primary Care and Specialty Care among the Newly Eligible.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To quantify the effect of Medicaid expansions on office-based care among the newly eligible. DATA SOURCE:2008-2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. STUDY DESIGN:The main sample is adults age 26-64 with incomes ≤138% of poverty who were not eligible for Medicaid prior to the Affordable Care Act. For this population, difference-in-differences linear probability models compare utilization between expansion and nonexpansion states and between 2008-2013 and 2014. EXTRACTION METHODS:Medicaid eligibility is simulated using data on family relationships, state of residence, and income. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:Relative to comparable adults in nonexpansion states, newly eligible adults in expansion states were 9.1 percentage points more likely to have any office-based primary care physician vis

SUBMITTER: Biener AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051968 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature