Association of Medicaid Expansion With Emergency Department Visits by Medical Urgency.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Relatively little is known about the association of the Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with emergency department (ED) visits categorized by medical urgency.

Objective

To estimate the association between state Medicaid expansions and ED visits by the urgency of presenting conditions.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Emergency Department Databases from January 2011 to December 2017 for 2 states that expanded Medicaid in 2014 (New York and Massachusetts) and 2 states that did not (Florida and Georgia). Difference-in-differences regression models were used to estimate the changes in ED visits overall and further stratified by t

SUBMITTER: Giannouchos TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198732 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature