Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Health Care Use in Older Adults : A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid have particularly high food insecurity prevalence and health care use.

Objective

To determine whether participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which reduces food insecurity, is associated with lower health care use and cost for older adults dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

Design

An incident user retrospective cohort study design was used. The association between participation in SNAP and health care use and cost using outcome regression was assessed and supplemented by entropy balancing, matching, and instrumental variable analyses.

Setting

North Carolina, September 2016 through July 2020.

Participants

Older adults (aged ≥65 years) dually enrolled i

SUBMITTER: Berkowitz SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893035 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature