Fierce Healthcare January 16, 2020
Medicaid enrollment churn eased following the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new study shows.
Research published in the January issue of Health Affairs found that both Medicaid coverage disruptions and coverage loss declined by 4.3% in states that expanded the program under the ACA.
Men, people of color and people without chronic conditions saw some of the greatest improvements, according to the study. About 20% of men in expansion states, for example, experienced disruption in coverage before the ACA was in place, a rate that declined to 14.9% after the rollout of the law.
Anna Goldman, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and the study’s lead author, told FierceHealthcare...