Medicaid Expansions

According to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), the majority of emergency department (ED) visits by nonelderly Medicaid patients are for symptoms suggesting urgent or more serious medical problems rather than for routine care.This research brief highlights that there are clearly opportunities to develop less-costly care options than emergency departments for both nonelderly Medicaid and privately insured patients.

This Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland report on the economic impact of health reform in Maryland found that the ACA will benefit the state’s budget by more than $600 million through 2020, generate more than $3 billion in annual economic activity, and create more than 26,000 jobs.

The 2014 Medicaid Eligibility Transition Toolkit is designed to assist states in systematically identifying issues and decisions they will face as they convert to 2014.

This issue brief provides a detailed overview of the final federal Medicaid eligibility rules, transition issues and decision points that states will need to consider as they prepare to convert to the collapsed eligibility categories in 2014.

This Urban Institute two page brief breaks down the potentially impacted uninsured population by income.