Reports Outline Managed Care Study Findings from Rutgers University Cancer Institute of New Jersey (Association of Medicaid Expansion of the Affordable Care Act With Operations for Benign Endocrine Surgical Disease): Managed Care

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2023 APR 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news originating from New Brunswick, New Jersey, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Center dot Background: The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased insurance coverage and access to care for endocrine cancers, though impact on benign endocrine disease is unknown. center dot Methods: Patients undergoing operations for benign thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease were collected from the Vizient ® Clinical Data Base from 2009 to 2016 and grouped by state Medicaid expansion status in January 2014.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Rutgers University Cancer Institute of New Jersey, “Insurance coverage was analyzed by difference-in-differences analysis, and logistic regression evaluated odds of operation by insurance status. center dot Results: 134,242 patients were included. Medicaid coverage in expansion states increased for all operations (Adj-DD 5.78%, p< 0.001) with decreases in uninsured and private insurance.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Medicaid patients had increased odds of undergoing thyroid operations (OR 1.56, p< 0.001) and decreased odds of parathyroid (OR 0.68, p< 0.001) or adrenal operations (OR 0.70, p< 0.001) versus private insurance. center dot Conclusion: Medicaid expansion increased insurance coverage for benign endocrine disease, however, barriers remain for Medicaid patients with parathyroid and adrenal disease.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Association of Medicaid Expansion of the Affordable Care Act With Operations for Benign Endocrine Surgical Disease. The American Journal of Surgery, 2023;225(4):679-684. The American Journal of Surgery can be contacted at: Excerpta Medica Inc-elsevier Science Inc, 685 Route 202-206 Ste 3, Bridgewater, NJ 08807, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Alexander Manzella, Rutgers University Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States. Additional authors for this research include Amanda M. Laird and Toni Beninato.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.10.046. 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.