Pent-Up Health Care Demand after the ACA: Does It Exist and Will It Go Away? (2014)

Principal Investigator: Angela Fertig, PhD, Medica Research Institute

This project aims to inform state agencies, insurers, and providers about the long-term costs and health care needs of the newly insured. The researchers will use enrollment and claims data from Medica, a regional health plan in Minnesota with 1.5 million members, to examine health care utilization among newly enrolled members of private individual and family plans in Minnesota's marketplace and in the state's Medicaid program. The analysis will determine whether there is evidence of pent-up demand among new members and, if so, whether the high level of demand subsides or persists over time.

See what Dr. Fertig has to say about her SHARE-funded study in her Medica Research Institute Investigator Video:

Grant Publications

Pent-Up Health Care Demand Among Medicaid Enrollees After the ACA
(March 2016, Presentation at Minnesota Health Services Research Conference)

Pent-Up Health Care Demand After the ACA
(November 2015, Presentation at  APPAM Fall Research Conference)

Pent-Up Health Care Demand After the ACA
(October 2015, Presentation at Health Policy & Management Seminar, University of Minnesota)

The First Insurance Claim of New ACA Enrollees
(August 2015, Research Brief) 

Minnesota's 2011 Medicaid Expansion Brought Coverage to More Low-income Men
(October 2014, Infographic)