New Findings from University of Tennessee in Health and Society Provides New Insights (Variation In State Medicaid Implementation of the Aca: the Case of Concurrent Care for Children)

2020 NOV 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Health and Society. According to news reporting from Knoxville, Tennessee, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “More than 55,000 children die each year in the United States, and hospice is used for very few of them at the end of their lives. Nearly one-third of pediatric deaths are a result of chronic, complex conditions, and the majority of these children are enrolled in Medicaid because of disability status or the severity of their disease.”

Financial support for this research came from National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Tennessee, “Changes in Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program regulations under Section 2302 of the Affordable Care Act require all state Medicaid plans to finance curative and hospice services for children. The section enables the option for pediatric patients to continue curative care while enrolled in hospice. We examined state-level implementation of concurrent care for Medicaid beneficiaries and found significant variability in guidelines across the US.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The implementation of concurrent care has fostered innovation yet has added barriers to how pediatric concurrent care has been implemented.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Variation In State Medicaid Implementation of the Aca: the Case of Concurrent Care for Children. Health Affairs, 2020;39(10):1770-1775. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Lisa C. Lindley, University of Tennessee, College of Nursing, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States. Additional authors for this research include Jessica Laird, Melanie J. Cozad, Jessica Keim-Malpass and Jennifer W. Mack.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01192. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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