Research theme
Coverage and Medicaid
How eligibility rules, work requirements and insurance status change who is screened, diagnosed and treated.
9 articles, newest first
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Projected Cancer Screening and Outcomes Under the 2025 Federal Medicaid Eligibility Restrictions
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Expanding Access to High-Quality Cancer Care Through Policy-California Cancer Care Equity Act
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Among people diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the 2013 implementation of California’s Insurance Gender Nondiscrimination Act was associated with a significant increase in the use of gender-affirming surgery in California compared with Washington and Arizona.
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At one high-volume academic center, a state law limiting opioid prescriptions after surgery was associated with fewer opioids prescribed on the day of outpatient plastic surgery, without an increase in the need for refills.
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Among Medicare patients having cancer surgery, those also eligible for Medicaid more often went to a care facility after discharge and had higher spending, even at the highest-quality hospitals, where outcome gaps were smaller.
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Among patients with a rare bile duct cancer in the liver, the Affordable Care Act era was associated with more early-stage diagnoses and surgery, and Medicaid expansion with better survival, but racial disparities persisted.
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After California expanded Medicaid, the chance of having high-risk cancer surgery at a high-volume hospital rose more for Medicaid patients than for other patients, but complications, in-hospital deaths and readmissions did not significantly improve.
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Insurance status and high-volume surgical cancer: Access to high-quality cancer care