Reports on Medicare and Medicaid Findings from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality Provide New Insights (Previous Medicaid Expansion May Have…

Reports on Medicare and Medicaid Findings from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality Provide New Insights (Previous Medicaid Expansion May Have Had Lasting Positive Effects On Oral Health Of Non-Hispanic Black Children)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Fresh data on Medicare and Medicaid are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Rockville, Maryland, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Healthy tooth development starts early in life, beginning even before birth. We present new evidence suggesting that a historic public health insurance expansion for pregnant women and children in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s may have had long-lasting effects on the oral health of the children gaining eligibility."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality, "We estimated the relationship between adult oral health and the extent of state public health insurance eligibility for pregnant women, infants, and children throughout childhood separately for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanics. We found that expanded Medicaid coverage geared toward pregnant women and children during their first year of life was linked to better oral health in adulthood among non-Hispanic blacks. Our results also suggested that there might be a benefit to expanded public health insurance eligibility for children at ages 1-6 among non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Medicaid expansions appear to have had long-lasting effects for certain low-income children and helped narrow racial/ethnic disparities in adult oral health."

For more information on this research see: Previous Medicaid Expansion May Have Had Lasting Positive Effects On Oral Health Of Non-Hispanic Black Children. Health Affairs, 2016;35(12):2249-2258. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting B.J. Lipton, Agcy Healthcare Res & Qual, Rockville, MD 20857, United States. Additional authors for this research include L.R. Wherry, S. Miller, G.M. Kenney and S. Decker.

Keywords for this news article include: Rockville, Maryland, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health Insurance, Public Health, Health Policy, Medicaid, Agency Healthcare Research & Quality.

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