Evaluating Medicaid expansion benefits for patients with cancer: National Cancer Database analysis and systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insurance status modifies healthcare access and inequities. The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid coverage for people with low incomes in the United States. This study assessed the consequences of this policy change for cancer care after expansion in 2014.

Methods

National Cancer Database (NCDB) public benchmark reports were queried for each malignancy in 2013 and 2016. Furthermore, a systematic search [PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Cochrane] was performed. Data on insurance status, access to cancer screening and treatment, and socioeconomic disparities in these metrics was collected.

Results

Two-tailed analysis of the NCDB revealed that 14 out of 18 eligible states had a statistically significant increase in Medicaid-insured patients with cancer after exp

SUBMITTER: Nathan NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8276859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature