Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Liver-Related Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

The Affordable Care Act provided the opportunity for states to expand Medicaid for low-income individuals. Not all states adopted Medicaid expansion, and the timing of adoption among expansion states varied. Prior studies have shown that Medicaid expansion improved mortality rates for several chronic conditions. Although there are data on the association between Medicaid expansion on insurance type among patients waitlisted for a liver transplant, there are no published data to date on its impact on liver disease-related mortality in the broader population. We therefore sought to evaluate the association between Medicaid expansion and state-level liver disease-related mortality using a quasi-experimental study design.

Methods

We evaluated age-adjusted, stat

SUBMITTER: Kumar SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature