Association of Medicaid Expansion With Medicaid Enrollment and Health Care Use Among Older Adults With Low Income and Chronic Condition Limitations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicaid is an important source of supplemental coverage for older Medicare beneficiaries with low income. Research has shown that Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with increased Medicaid coverage for previously eligible older adults with low income, but there has been little research on whether their health care use increased or whether such changes differed by beneficiaries' health status.

Objective

To assess whether the ACA Medicaid expansion to working-age adults was associated with increased Medicaid enrollment and health care use among older adults with low income with and without chronic condition limitations.

Design setting and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the Nati

SUBMITTER: McInerney M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166222 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature