Duration and Continuity of Medicaid Enrollment Before the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

COVID-19 relief legislation created a temporary moratorium on Medicaid disenrollment, but when the public health emergency ends, states will begin to "unwind" Medicaid enrollment. Prepandemic data shed light on factors that can affect Medicaid coverage stability.

Objective

To assess factors associated with the duration and continuity of Medicaid enrollment.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional analyses of a Medicaid data set for 2016 that was released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in June of 2022, we analyze a nationally representative data set of 5.7 million persons, weighted to represent 70 million Medicaid beneficiaries in 2016. We focus on 22 million nondisabled, nonelderly adults for this analysis. The data were

SUBMITTER: Ku L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856506 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature