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FOLLOWING THE ACA

ACA Litigation Round-Up: A Status Check
By Katie Keith

While all eyes have been on whether (and when) the Supreme Court will hear a challenge in Texas v. United States, other Affordable Care Act litigation continues before the Supreme Court, appellate courts, and district courts across the country. This post briefly summarizes the status of many of the lawsuits we are tracking. Read More >>

PREVENTION

As Presidential Candidates Debate Sweeping Health Care Proposals, Preventive Coverage Opportunities Are Overlooked
By Richard Hughes IV

With health care remaining a top issue for voters in the upcoming 2020 elections, candidates could consider meaningful, actionable updates to provisions that advance access to preventive services for individuals with all types of health care coverage. Read More >>

MEDICARE

Why Medicare Advantage Plans Are Being Overpaid By $200 Billion And What To Do About It
By Richard Kronick

Under reasonably conservative assumptions about the rate of growth of Medicare Advantage coding intensity, using the budget neutrality method to calculate coding intensity would likely result in approximately $200 billion in savings to taxpayers over the next decade compared to current policy.
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IN THE JOURNAL

MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

Effects Of Medicaid Expansion On Postpartum Coverage And Outpatient Utilization
By Sarah H. Gordon, Benjamin D. Sommers, Ira B. Wilson, and Amal N. Trivedi

Because pregnancy-related Medicaid eligibility ends sixty days after delivery, one effect of Medicaid expansion is to reduce postpartum coverage losses. Comparing Colorado, which expanded Medicaid, with Utah, which did not, Sarah Gordon and coauthors find that outpatient use "increased significantly in Colorado compared to Utah across all four postpartum months we examined, with the largest increases 31–90 days after delivery—the period when new mothers transition from pregnancy to parental Medicaid coverage and are at the highest risk of losing coverage." Read More >>

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Among Low-Income Adults Enrolled In Medicaid, Churning Decreased After The Affordable Care Act
By Anna L. Goldman and Benjamin D. Sommers

Anna Goldman and Benjamin Sommers explore Medicaid enrollment churn—the frequent coverage losses that enrollees experience. In the period 2011–16, gaps in coverage and loss of coverage each declined by 4.3 percentage points in states that expanded Medicaid, a decline significantly larger than in states that did not expand Medicaid. Read More >>

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