Researchers at Department of Human Services Have Reported New Data on Managed Care (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Is Associated With Lower Health Care Spending Among Working Age Adults Without Dependents): Managed Care

2022 JUL 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting out of St. Paul, Minnesota, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Prior evidence suggests an association among food insecurity, poor health, and increased health care spending. In this study, we are using a natural experiment to confirm if longer participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is associated with reduced Medicaid spending among a highly impoverished group of adults.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Human Services, “In 2013, the mandatory work requirements associated with SNAP benefits were lifted for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). Using 2013 to 2015 Medicaid and SNAP data of 24,181 Minnesotans aged 18-49, we examined if changes in SNAP enrollment duration affect health care expenditures. In fully adjusted within-participant regression models, for each additional month of SNAP, average annual health care spending was $98.8 lower (95% CI: -131.7, -66.0; p<.001) per person.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Our data suggests that allowing ABAWDs to receive SNAP even in months they are not working may be critical to their health as well as cost-effective.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Is Associated With Lower Health Care Spending Among Working Age Adults Without Dependents. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2022;33(2):737-750. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved can be contacted at: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, Journals Publishing Division, 2715 North Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Grace Kollannoor-Samuel, Minnesota Hlth Care Adm, Dept. of Human Services, St. Paul, MN 55164, United States. Additional authors for this research include Justine Nelson, Kristen A. Boelcke-Stennes, Erika Martin, Jeff Schiff and Angela R. Fertig.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2022.0060. 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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