Changes in Hospitalizations at US Safety-Net Hospitals Following Medicaid Expansion

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2114343. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.14343.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines whether inpatient utilization among patients with lower socioeconomic status and among those who belong to racial/ethnic minority groups changed differentially in states that expanded Medicaid following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Boston
  • Female
  • Hospitalization / economics*
  • Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medicaid / statistics & numerical data*
  • Middle Aged
  • Safety-net Providers / statistics & numerical data*
  • United States