Healthcare Finance News October 2, 2019
Nearly one in three low-income people enrolled in Michigan’s expanded Medicaid program discovered they had a chronic illness that had never been diagnosed before, found a team from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation..
And whether it was a newly found condition or one they’d known about before, half of Medicaid expansion enrollees with chronic conditions said their overall health improved after one year of coverage or more. Nearly as many said their mental health had improved.
The team’s analysis looked at common chronic diagnoses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and asthma — the kinds of conditions that can worsen over time if not found and treated. Left untreated or under-treated for years, they...
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