November 10, 2015
The 2015 Fall Research Conference for the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Conference is occurring this week in Miami, FL. The conference’s theme is “The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy” to showcase the importance of high quality evaluation practices. We are pleased to highlight a panel on Early Data on Health Care Utilization after Coverage Expansion that features four different SHARE-funded analyses.
- The Effect of Early Medicaid Expansion in California on Safety Net Hospital Utilization
Peter Cunningham and Lindsay Sabik utilize the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), the American Hospital Association annual survey, and the Area Health Resource File to examine the effects of California’s early ACA coverage expansions on inpatient and emergency department utilization of safety net hospitals.
- The Effects of Expanding Public Insurance on Utilization: Early Results from Wisconsin
Marguerite Burns, Thomas DeLeire, and others present private claims data and Medicaid enrollment files to measure changes in health care utilization after enrollment into a public insurance program for low-income childless adults in Wisconsin.
- Pent-up Health Care Demand after the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Angie Fertig, Caroline Carlin, and Sharon Long use private claims data to examine whether there is evidence of pent-up demand for health care among newly-insured adults in individual and family health insurance plans and Medicaid under the ACA in Minnesota.
- Early Effects of the 2014 Medicaid Expansion on Coverage and Access to Care
Michael Dworsky and Christine Eibner present a pre-post analysis using the 2014 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to examine the short-run effects of the ACA Medicaid expansion on insurance coverage, access to care, and health status among the expansion population, comparing outcomes for expansion and non-expansion states.
The panel chair is Katherine Hempstead, Director and Senior Program Officer for SHARE at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the discussant is SHADAC Senior Research Fellow, Brett Fried. The panel takes place on Thursday, November 12, from 3:30pm-5:00pm.