Healthcare DIVE October 16, 2018
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

  • A new Government Accountability Office study adds to a growing body of evidence that Medicaid expansion improves access to care, finding that low-income adults in expansion states were less likely to have unmet medical needs compared both with low-income adults in non-expansion states and low-income adults who were uninsured.
  • Low-income adults in expansion states were also less likely to report financial barriers to needed medical care, including specialty care, and more likely to report having a regular place of care, than those in non-expansion states and those who were uninsured. On each of the access questions, uninsured in expansion states fared better than uninsured in non-expansion states, according to the report released Monday.
  • Also Monday, CMS...

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Topics: GAO, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Market Research, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Trends
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