Medicaid expansion and provision of prescription contraception to Medicaid beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medicaid expansion increased access to care, but longitudinal patterns of contraception use after the Medicaid expansion have not been described.

Methods

We evaluated the effects of Medicaid expansion on the amount and type of contraceptive prescriptions using the Medicaid State Utilization Dataset.

Results

Overall long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) use increased in both expansion and non-expansion states. In a difference-in-differences analysis, states that expanded Medicaid had no appreciable increase in per-capita prescription rates of LARC (p = 0.26) or short-acting hormonal contraception (p = 0.09) when compared to nonexpansion states.

Discussion

The Medicaid expansion was not associated with a change in per-capita LARC or short-actin

SUBMITTER: Sumarsono A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011849 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature