Oregon Medicaid Expenditures After the 2014 Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion

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• Alternative Title:
  Med Care
• Personal Author:
  Springer, Rachel ; Marino, Miguel ; O’Malley, Jean P ; Lindner, Stephan ; Huguet, Nathalie ; DeVoe, Jennifer E
• Description:
  Background ; There is interest in assessing healthcare utilization and expenditures among new Medicaid enrollees after the 2014 Medicaid expansion. Recent studies have not differentiated between newly enrolled individuals and those returning after coverage gaps. ; Objectives ; To assess healthcare expenditures among Medicaid enrollees in the 24 months after Oregon’s 2014 Medicaid expansions and examine whether expenditure patterns were different among the newly, returning, and continuously insured. ; Research Design ; Retrospective cohort study using inverse-propensity weights to adjust for differences between groups. ; Subjects ; Oregon adult Medicaid beneficiaries insured continuously from 2014-2015 who were either newly, returning, or continuously insured. ; Measures ; Monthly expenditures for inpatient care, prescription drugs, total outpatient care, and subdivisions of outpatient care: emergency department (ED), dental, mental and behavioral health (MBH), primary care (PC), and specialist care. ; Results ; After initial increases, newly and returning insured outpatient expenditures dropped below continuously insured. Expenditures for ED and dental services among the returning insured remained higher than among the newly insured. Newly insured MBH, PC, and specialist expenditures plateaued higher than returning insured. Prescription drug expenditures increased over time for all groups, with continuously insured highest and returning insured lowest. All groups had similar inpatient expenditures over 24 months post-Medicaid expansion. ; Conclusions ; Our findings reveal that outpatient expenditures for new non-pregnant, non-dual-eligible Oregon Medicaid recipients stabilized over time after meeting pent-up demand, and prior insurance history affected the mix of services that individuals received. Policy evaluations should consider expenditures over at least 24 months and should account for enrollees’ prior insurance histories.
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• Keywords:
  • Health insurance
  • Medicaid
  • medical expenditures
  • policy evaluation
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Health Expenditures
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Humans
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• Source:
  Med Care. 56(5):394-402
• Pubmed ID:
  29578955
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5893375
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U18DP006116/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA204267/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HS024270/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/ ; U18 DP006116/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA181452/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53229/cdc_53229_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 660.43 KB]
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  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:7f56c9afb5c3c9f900de1eb182edff021d1d8094e057a26b80494ec6860c76ad