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ArticleClinical pediatrics2019

Early Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Delivery of Children's Surgical Care.

Jonathan C Routh, Steven Wolf, Rohit Tejwani, Ruiyang Jiang, Gina-Maria Pomann, Benjamin A Goldstein, Matthew L Maciejewski, Alexander C Allori

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Article in Clinical pediatrics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Jonathan C Routh1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7731-963X
Steven Wolf1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Rohit Tejwani1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Ruiyang Jiang1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Gina-Maria Pomann1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Benjamin A Goldstein1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Matthew L Maciejewski1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Alexander C Allori1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3334-9877

Funding

Support for QA/QC for Prior Approval ProcessUL1TR002553 · NCATS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI LI, JENNIFER S, MCNAMARA, JAMES O. · 2018 to 2023
$58.5M
Duke CTSA (Composite)UL1TR001117 · NCATS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BOULWARE, LEIGH E, LI, JENNIFER S · 2013 to 2017
$41.3M
Comparative Effectiveness of Vesicoureteral Reflux Treatments in ChildrenK08DK100534 · NIDDK · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ROUTH, JONATHAN C · 2014 to 2018
$671k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001117NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002553NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK100534
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on children's access to surgical care is not well-defined. Our objective was to describe the early impact of PPACA on children's surgical care before and after Medicaid expansion in 2014. We compared pediatric and young adult surgical outcomes in 2013 and 2014 in Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states; young adults were included as a control group. From 4 states, 1 597 708 encounters met all inclusion criteria. Comparing expansion to nonexpansion states, modest increases were noted in elective instead of urgent/emergent admissions; in ambulatory instead of inpatient surgeries; in inpatient length of stays; in discharges to home instead of other inpatient care facilities; and in charges for inpatient admissions. A modest decrease of -1.1% was noted in ambulatory admission charges. Overall, we conclude that Medicaid expansion likely increased children's access to surgical care, resulting in improved delivery and slightly reduced charges.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActSurgical Procedures, OperativeAdolescentChildChild HealthChild, PreschoolDelivery of Health CareFemaleHealth Services AccessibilityHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMedicaidUnited StatesYoung Adulthealth care deliveryhealth policyMedicaid expansionpediatricssurgery

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PMID30666879
PMCPMC7417205

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