Association of State Medicaid Expansion With Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Liver Transplant Wait-listing in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Millions of Americans gained insurance through the state expansion of Medicaid, but several states with large populations of racial/ethnic minorities did not expand their programs.

Objective

To investigate the implications of Medicaid expansion for liver transplant (LT) wait-listing trends for racial/ethnic minorities.

Design, setting, and participants

A cohort study was performed of adults wait-listed for LT using the United Network of Organ Sharing database between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2017. Poisson regression and a controlled, interrupted time series analysis were used to model trends in wait-listing rates by race/ethnicity. The setting was LT centers in the United States.

Main outcomes and measures

(1) Wait-listing rates by race/ethn

SUBMITTER: Nephew LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545310 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature