Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Pre-Hospital Access to Care: Changes in Adult Perforated Appendix Admission Rates after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision
Zogg CK, Scott JW, Bhulani N, Gluck AR, Curfman GD, Davis KA, Dimick JB, Haider AH. Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Pre-Hospital Access to Care: Changes in Adult Perforated Appendix Admission Rates after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision. Journal Of The American College Of Surgeons 2018, 228: 29-43.e1. PMID: 30359835, DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.09.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedicaid expansionAffordable Care ActAdmission ratesPerforation rateInsurance coverageAffordable Care Act's insurance expansionInsurance expansionYoung adultsAcute surgical careDependent coverage provisionBetter patient outcomesFederal poverty levelRace/ethnicityAcute appendicitisHospitalized adultsAcute careParents' insuranceInpatient claimsPatient outcomesACA's impactSurgical careRisk populationsNonexpansion statesPrivileged patientsAge 26Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Access to Care: Changes in Perforated Appendix Rates among Adults after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision
Zogg C, Scott J, Davis K, Dimick J, Haider A. Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Access to Care: Changes in Perforated Appendix Rates among Adults after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision. Journal Of The American College Of Surgeons 2018, 227: s148. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.07.314.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAffordable Care Act's insurance expansionDependent coverage provisionAppendix rateMedicaid expansionInsurance expansionCoverage provision