Tag: Medicaid

Effect of Medicaid expansion on reductions in preventable hospitalizations

Editor's Note This study, led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, examines whether Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion among Black, Hispanic, and White patients led to reductions in preventable hospitalizations. Data on census population and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions from 2010 to…

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By: Judy Mathias
September 13, 2023
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Study: Race, income, insurance associated with delayed appendicitis diagnosis, long hospital stays

Editor's Note A study led by researchers at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago finds non-Hispanic Black, low income, and publicly insured patients received higher rates of delayed appendicitis diagnoses and long postoperative hospital stays. The cohort study included 80,312 patients who underwent open or laparoscopic appendectomy in…

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By: Lindsay Botts
March 9, 2023
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