Early Medicaid Expansion and Cancer Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While Medicaid expansion is associated with decreased uninsured rates and earlier cancer diagnoses, no study has demonstrated an association between Medicaid expansion and cancer mortality. Our primary objective was to quantify the relationship between early Medicaid expansion and changes in cancer mortality rates.

Methods

We obtained county-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics for adults ages 20-64 who died from cancer from 2007-2009 (pre-expansion) and 2012-2016 (post-expansion). We compared changes in cancer mortality rates in early Medicaid expansion states (CA, CT, DC, MN, NJ, and WA) vs. non-expansion states through a difference-in-differences (DID) analysis using hierarchical Bayesian regression. An exploratory analysis of cancer mortal

SUBMITTER: Barnes JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634305 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature