Increasing Medicaid enrollment among formerly incarcerated adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the incremental associations between the implementation of expanded Medicaid eligibility and prerelease Medicaid enrollment assistance on Medicaid enrollment for recently incarcerated adults.

Data sources/study setting

Data include person-level merged, longitudinal data from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and the Wisconsin Medicaid program from 2013 to 2015.

Study design

We use an interrupted time series design to estimate the association between each of two natural experiments and Medicaid enrollment for recently incarcerated adults. First, in April 2014 the Wisconsin Medicaid program expanded eligibility to include all adults with income at or below 100% of the federal poverty level. Second, in January 2015, the Wisconsin Department of

SUBMITTER: Burns ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8313952 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature