McKnight's September 23, 2021
Medicaid expansion increased access to nursing home care for people younger than 65, but it’s unclear whether those patients would have been treated more adequately in other post-acute settings.
That’s according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, who set out to study the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Affordable Care Act on the nation’s nursing homes.
The team reviewed more than 15 million admissions, including those of about 2.5 million of residents younger than 65, between 2009 and 2016.
Facilities in expansion states that previously had an occupancy rate of more than 70% saw their share of under-65 residents grow by 2.74% more than similar facilities in non-expansion states,...
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