Health insurance enrollment strategies during the Affordable Care Act (ACA): a scoping review on what worked and for whom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided an opportunity for millions of people in the U.S. to get coverage from the publicly funded Medicaid program or private insurance from the newly established marketplace. However, enrolling millions of people for health insurance was an enormous task. The aim of this review was to examine the strategies used to enroll people for health insurance and their effectiveness after implementing the ACA's coverage expansion.

Methods

The PRISMA Extension for Scoping Review (PRISMA-ScR) guided this review. Included studies were empirical studies that met the inclusion criteria and published between 2010 and 2020. Studies were searched mainly from two scholarly databases, CINAHL Plus and Medline (PubMed) using keyword searches. Hand searc

SUBMITTER: Ercia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8274016 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature