New Managed Care Data Have Been Reported by Researchers at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Evaluating the Impact of the Medicaid Expansion Program On Diabetes Hospitalization): Managed Care

2024 FEB 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news reporting out of Los Angeles, California, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Diabetes is the most expensive chronic disease in the United States, and hospital inpatient care accounts for 30% of the total medical expenditures. Medical costs for people with limited resources are covered by Medicaid, a joint federal and state program, and its expansion that extent the coverage to those with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), “We investigated the impact of Medicaid expansion on diabetes hospitalizations by states and payer, among adults aged 19 to 64 years old, 5 years after the expansion. We found that Medicaid expansion decreased total diabetes hospitalization in most states and a diabetes hospitalization payer mix shifted from private insurance and uninsured to Medicaid.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The percentage of diabetes hospitalizations paid by Medicaid increased by 11% (95% CI 7%, 16%), while the percentage paid by private insurance decreased by 6% (95% CI - 8%, - 3%) and the percentage of uninsured diabetes hospitalization decreased by 13% (95% CI - 18%, - 9%).”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Evaluating the Impact of the Medicaid Expansion Program On Diabetes Hospitalization. Journal of Public Health Policy, 2024. Journal of Public Health Policy can be contacted at: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Brunel Rd Bldg, Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS, Hants, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Fan Zhao, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Ucla, Fielding School of Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology, 650 Charles E Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00463-0. 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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