TY - JOUR
T1 - Medicaid expansion associated with reductions in preventable hospitalizations
AU - Wen, Hefei
AU - Johnston, Kenton J.
AU - Allen, Lindsay
AU - Waters, Teresa M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Project HOPE— The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Hospitalizations for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions indicate barriers to care outside of inpatient settings. We found that Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act were associated with meaningful reductions in these hospitalizations, which suggests the potential of Medicaid expansions to reduce the need for preventable hospitalizations in vulnerable populations and produce cost savings for the US health care system.
AB - Hospitalizations for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions indicate barriers to care outside of inpatient settings. We found that Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act were associated with meaningful reductions in these hospitalizations, which suggests the potential of Medicaid expansions to reduce the need for preventable hospitalizations in vulnerable populations and produce cost savings for the US health care system.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00483
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00483
M3 - Article
C2 - 31682506
AN - SCOPUS:85074547929
VL - 38
SP - 1845
EP - 1849
JO - Health affairs (Project Hope)
JF - Health affairs (Project Hope)
IS - 11
ER -
