The effect of Medicaid expansions on demand for care from the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adequate access to care at Veterans Health Administration (VA) medical centers has become a high-profile policy issue. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) could improve access to care for veterans, particularly if its Medicaid expansion is implemented in all states. The relationship between Medicaid expansion on the one hand and VA enrollment and utilization on the other has not previously been explored for all states.

Methods

Using VA and other public data from 2002 to 2008, we calculated a measure of Medicaid eligibility sensitive to state-year varying policy change but not changes in demographics or economic conditions. Next, controlling for potential confounding factors, we estimated fixed effects Poisson models of VA enrollment and inpatient and outpatient utilizat

SUBMITTER: Frakt AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273787 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature