Patients Hospitalized for Complications of Cirrhosis may Have Benefited From Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The benefit of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for patients with cirrhosis is unclear. We determined the impact of ACA expansion on outcomes in patients hospitalized for complications of cirrhosis.

Patients and methods

We compared hospitalizations; in-hospital outcomes; and readmissions among patients with cirrhosis identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, and International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, codes in states that expanded Medicaid under ACA (expanded [E] states) and those that did not (nonexpanded [NE] states). Data from the State Inpatient Databases were obtained for 3 pairs of contiguous E and NE states with both pre-ACA expansion and post-ACA expansion data. The difference-in-difference analysis was perform

SUBMITTER: Wang XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature