2024
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act and Early Mortality Following Lung Cancer Surgery
Nogueira L, Boffa D, Jemal A, Han X, Yabroff K. Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act and Early Mortality Following Lung Cancer Surgery. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2351529. PMID: 38214932, PMCID: PMC10787311, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.51529.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedicaid expansion statusNon-small cell lung cancerMedicaid expansion statesMedicaid expansionSurgical resection of non-small cell lung cancerResection of non-small cell lung cancerDifference-in-differencesExpansion statesPatients' state of residenceNonexpansion statesCohort studyAssociation of Medicaid expansionExpansion statusPostoperative mortalityDifference-in-differences analysisStudy population characteristicsState of residenceAffordable Care ActHealth insurance coverageCohort study of patientsSurgical resectionEarly mortalityMain OutcomesAssociated with declinesCancer outcomes
2021
Change in facility-level share of Medicaid patients with cancer following implementation of the affordable care act.
Buck M, Demkowicz P, Nie J, Marks V, Salazar M, Kenney P, Boffa D, Leapman M. Change in facility-level share of Medicaid patients with cancer following implementation of the affordable care act. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2021, 39: e18543-e18543. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2021.39.15_suppl.e18543.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProportion of MedicaidAffordable Care ActMedicaid patientsMedicaid expansionFacility-level changesFacility-level policiesNational Cancer DatabasePrimary study endpointProportion of patientsInsurance coverageMultivariable logistic regressionExpansion statesCare ActFacility-level factorsMedicaid expansion statesNon-expansion statesAdult patientsStudy endpointAdjusted differenceCancer DatabaseMedicaid populationEligible facilitiesPatientsCancerLogistic regression