Medicaid expansion associated with reductions in preventable hospitalizations

Hefei Wen; Kenton J. Johnston; Lindsay Allen; Teresa M. Waters

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00483

Medicaid expansion associated with reductions in preventable hospitalizations

Hefei Wen
, Kenton J. Johnston
, Lindsay Allen
, Teresa M. Waters

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1845-1849
Number of pages	5
Journal	Health Affairs
Volume	38
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00483
State	Published - Nov 2019

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Medicaid expansion associated with reductions in preventable hospitalizations

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