Medicaid Disenrollment: Intrastate Emergency Department Impact

Vanderbilt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medicaid Enrollment Status

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00565344

Medicaid Disenrollment

EMF Resident Research Grant

Details and patient eligibility

About

We will obtain data from the robust Agency for Healthcare Reimbursement and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Utilization Project (HCUP), as well as from the State of Tennessee. If our hypotheses are true, such data will provide strong evidence that Medicaid disenrollment has a negetive health impact on uninsured populations. The data may also provide evidence for increased public funding of safety-net EDs after Medicaid disenrollment.

Enrollment: 5,000,000 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• data will be obtained from the Agency for Healthcare Reimbursement and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Utilization Project (HCUP)

Exclusion criteria

• n/a