Examination of Changes in Health Status Among Michigan Medicaid Expansion Enrollees From 2016 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Evidence about the health benefits of Medicaid expansion has been mixed and has largely come from comparing expansion and nonexpansion states.

Objective

To examine the self-reported health of enrollees in Michigan's Medicaid expansion, the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP), over time.

Design, setting, and participants

A telephone survey from January 1 to October 31, 2016 (response rate, 53.7%), and a follow-up survey from March 1, 2017, to January 31, 2018 (response rate, 83.4%), were conducted in Michigan, which expanded Medicaid in 2014 through a Section 1115 waiver permitting state-specific modifications. Four thousand ninety HMP beneficiaries aged 19 to 64 years with at least 12 months of HMP coverage and at least 9 months in a Medicaid health plan were eligi

SUBMITTER: Patel MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7352154 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature