Health Payer Intelligence August 9, 2022
Total Medicaid expansion may prove most beneficial for Black women of reproductive age who could see a 53.7 percent drop in uninsurance.
If the 12 states that have not yet expanded Medicaid eligibility adopted Medicaid expansion and the US achieved total Medicaid expansion, they could provide access to healthcare coverage for 3.7 million Americans, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute report found.
The report used Urban’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) model to create a microsimulation of the healthcare system. The researchers used CMS Marketplace 2022 enrollment data and 2019 Medicaid enrollment data from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to estimate Marketplace and Medicaid coverage changes in 2023 if the 12 nonexpansion...