Studies from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality Yield New Information about Medicare and Medicaid (Medicaid Expansion Coverage Effects Grew In…

Studies from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality Yield New Information about Medicare and Medicaid (Medicaid Expansion Coverage Effects Grew In 2015 With Continued Improvements In Coverage Quality)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Medicare and Medicaid. According to news reporting out of Rockville, Maryland, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "Previous research has demonstrated large gains in insurance coverage associated with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Medicaid expansion in 2014. We used detailed federal survey data through 2015 to analyze more recent changes in coverage for low-income adults after the expansion."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Agency Healthcare Research & Quality, "We found that the uninsurance rate fell in both expansion and nonexpansion states but that it fell significantly more in expansion states. By 2015 the post-ACA uninsurance rate for low-income adults had fallen by 7.5 percentage points more in expansion than in nonexpansion states, a difference that was similar (about 6.8 percentage points) in adjusted regression models. Private coverage increased in nonexpansion states, but significantly less than Medicaid coverage increased in expansion states. Rates of private coverage did not appear to decline in expansion states."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Finally, Medicaid expansion was associated with significantly improved quality of health coverage, as reported by low-income adults."

For more information on this research see: Medicaid Expansion Coverage Effects Grew In 2015 With Continued Improvements In Coverage Quality. Health Affairs, 2017;36(5):819-825. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA (see also Medicare and Medicaid).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S.L. Decker, Agcy Healthcare Res & Qual, Rockville, MD 20857, United States. Additional authors for this research include B.J. Lipton and B.D. Sommers.

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

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