Association of Medicaid Expansion With Access to Rehabilitative Care in Adult Trauma Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability for patients of all ages, many of whom are also among the most likely to be uninsured. Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was intended to improve access to care through improvements in insurance. However, despite nationally reported changes in the payer mix of patients, the extent of the law's impact on insurance coverage among trauma patients is unknown, as is its success in improving trauma outcomes and promoting increased access to rehabilitation.

Objective

To use rigorous quasi-experimental regression techniques to assess the extent of changes in insurance coverage, outcomes, and discharge to rehabilitation among adult trauma patients before and after Medicaid expansion and implementation

SUBMITTER: Zogg CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6537775 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature