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Medicaid Expansion Reduced Catastrophic Charges
In a paper published in the August 2021 issue, Benjamin Albright and coauthors estimated the potential reduction in uninsured surgical hospitalizations and associated catastrophic charges in states that have yet to expand Medicaid if they had actually expanded the program.
The authors found there is a 99.0 percent risk of catastrophic charges with uninsured surgical hospitalization and that Medicaid expansion is associated with significant reductions in both the share and the population rate of uninsured surgical hospitalizations.
Their findings suggested that 51,622 incidences of catastrophic charges could have been prevented by expanding Medicaid in the fifteen non-expansion states in 2019 alone.
For all Health Affairs’ content about Medicaid, visit our website.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Claire O'Hanlon and coauthors argue that without rigorous evaluation it will be impossible to distinguish transformational mobile health apps from scams.
In a sponsored post by McKinsey & Company, Stephanie Carlton and colleagues share insights on the "public option."
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