Utilization and Reimbursements Increased Following State Medicaid Expansion, But Newly Covered Patients Were Less Costly Than Existing Patients; JMCP…
Utilization and Reimbursements Increased Following State Medicaid Expansion, But Newly Covered Patients Were Less Costly Than Existing Patients; JMCP Study
People who gained prescription drug coverage as a result of states expanding
The data suggests that patients entering the program were healthier than existing patients during the initial
Researchers wanted to know how influx of new patients into
The immediate decline in PMPQ utilization trends in expansion states suggests that risk pooling is working with the introduction of new healthy patients into the program, according to authors Nirosha Mahendraratnam, MSPH;
The study used
"We expected, and found, that states expanding
Professor,
"What was interesting, though, was that when you looked at the effect of expanding
Farley does note that toward the end of the first year of
A link to the article can be found here (http://www.jmcp.org/doi/abs/10.18553/jmcp.2017.23.3.355). To read the current issue of JMCP, visit www.jmcp.org.
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