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Background
A national data source for identifying patients with cancer enrolled in Medicaid is needed to evaluate cancer care for low‐income, publicly insured patients. In this study, a population‐based data set of patients diagnosed with cancer and enrolled in Medicaid was created and evaluated. The objective was to compare the characteristics of patients with cancer identified in Surveillance,...
Objective
Medicaid coverage for low‐income women may play an important role in ensuring access to preventive care. This study examines how Medicaid eligibility expansions to nonelderly adults impact cervical cancer screening among low‐income women.
Data Sources
We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 2000 to 2010. The primary outcome of interest is whether women in...
BACKGROUND
States routinely may consider rollbacks of Medicaid expansions to address statewide economic conditions. To the authors' knowledge, little is known regarding the effects of public insurance contractions on health outcomes. The current study examined the effects of the 2005 Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee on breast cancer stage at the time of diagnosis and delays in treatment among...
BACKGROUND:Early research demonstrated that patients' length‐of‐stay and inpatient costs varied according to their health insurance status. The authors of the current report studied a population‐based sample of privately insured, Medicaid‐insured, and uninsured inpatients ages 21 to 64 years who underwent surgical resection for either nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (n = 781) or colorectal cancer...
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