Planning for ACA Coverage Expansion: How Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults Will Affect Utilization (2012)

Principal Investigator: Tom DeLeire, PhD, Georgetown University

The purpose of this project is to explore the health care utilization patterns among a Medicaid expansion population in Wisconsin: low-income, uninsured childless adults newly eligible for Medicaid under Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Core Plan.  This project will examine several questions including if and how service utilization changes before and after Medicaid enrollment; how utilization patterns may differ for those coming from prior safety net coverage; and whether any apparent difference in utilization between those enrollees who had been chronically uninsured and those who had been episodically uninsured shows up in pent-up demand.

Read the Program Results Report for this project.

Publications

The Effects of Expanding Public Insurance to Rural Low-Income Childless Adults
(September 2014, Journal Article)

Demand for Care among Low-Income Childless Adults after Coverage Expansion
(March 2014, Webinar)

Predicting High-Needs Cases Among New Medicaid Enrollees
(September 2014, Journal Article)

Wisonsin's Experience with Medicaid Auto-Enrollment: Lessons for Other States
(2012, Journal Article)

An Analysis of Wisonsin's ACCESS Online Application for BadgerCare Plus
(2011, Presentation)

Target Efficiency of Online Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment: An Evalutation of Wisconsion's ACCESS Internet Portal
(February 2011, Brief)