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Association Between State Medicaid Expansion and Emergency Access to Acute Care Hospitals in the United States.


ABSTRACT: Importance:State decisions not to expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could reduce emergency access to acute care hospitals. Objective:To determine the relationship between state Medicaid expansion and emergency access to acute care hospitals in the United States. Design, Setting, and Participants:This cross-sectional study linked hospital-level data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from 2007 to 2017 to US Census data for all 50 US states and the District of Columbia. Geospatial analyses and difference-in-differences regression models were used to compare temporal changes in the size of the population without 30-minute access to acute care hospitals between 32 states that expanded Medicaid with the population without access in 19 that did not, before and after expansion. Analyses focused on the total population and those with low incomes; secondary analyses examined emergency access to safety-net hospitals. Exposures:State-level Medicaid expansion. Main Outcomes and Measures:Population without emergency access to an acute care hospital, defined as living outside a 30-minute drive of any hospital. Results:States that did not expand Medicaid experienced an increase in the population without access to hospitals overall (without expansion: 6.76% to 6.79% [0.03%]; vs with expansion: 5.65% to 5.35% [-0.30%]; difference-in-differences, 0.33%; 95% CI, 0.33%-0.34%; P?

SUBMITTER: Wallace DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670316 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association Between State Medicaid Expansion and Emergency Access to Acute Care Hospitals in the United States.

Wallace David J DJ   Donohue Julie M JM   Angus Derek C DC   Sabik Lindsay M LM   Davis Billie B   Yabes Jonathan J   Kahn Jeremy M JM  

JAMA network open 20201102 11


<h4>Importance</h4>State decisions not to expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could reduce emergency access to acute care hospitals.<h4>Objective</h4>To determine the relationship between state Medicaid expansion and emergency access to acute care hospitals in the United States.<h4>Design, setting, and participants</h4>This cross-sectional study linked hospital-level data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from 2007 to 2017 to US Census data for al  ...[more]

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