Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31480928›Full record

ArticlePsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2019

Effects of ACA Expansion of Dependent Coverage on Hospital-Based Care of Young Adults With Early Psychosis.

Susan H Busch, Ezra Golberstein, Howard H Goldman, Christine Loveridge, Robert E Drake, Ellen Meara

Open access · bronzeAbstract readComparative Study
In one paragraph

Article in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susan H BuschYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Ezra GolbersteinYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Howard H GoldmanYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Christine LoveridgeYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Robert E DrakeYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Ellen MearaYale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Busch); Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Golberstein); Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (Goldman); Center for Health Information and Analysis, Boston (Loveridge); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (Drake); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Meara).
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice · US

Funding

Young adults, health care use and psychosisR01MH106635 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BUSCH, SUSAN H · 2016 to 2018
$1.3M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveSince 2010, the Affordable Care Act has required private health plans to extend dependent coverage to adults up to age 26. Because psychosis often begins in young adulthood, expanded private insurance benefits may affect early psychosis treatment. The authors examined changes in insurance coverage and hospital-based service use among young adults with psychosis before and after this change.

methodsThe study included a national sample (2006-2013) of discharges and emergency department visits. Using a difference-in-differences study design, the authors compared changes in insurance coverage (measured as payer source), per capita admissions, and 30-day readmissions for psychosis before and after ACA dependent coverage expansion among targeted individuals (ages 20-25) and a comparison group (ages 27-29).

resultsAfter dependent coverage expansion, hospitalization for psychosis among young adults was 5.8 percentage points more likely to be reimbursed by private insurance among the targeted age group (ages 20-25), compared with the slightly older age group (ages 27-29). Dependent coverage expansion was not associated with changes in overall insurance coverage, per capita admissions, or 30-day readmission for psychosis.

conclusionsAlthough dependent coverage expansion was unrelated to changes in use of hospital-based treatments for psychosis among young adults, care was more likely to be covered by private insurance, and coverage of these hospitalizations by public insurance decreased. This shift from public to private insurance may reduce public spending on young-adult treatments for early-episode psychosis but may leave young adults without coverage for rehabilitation services.

Indexed as

Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActAdultEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleHospitalizationHumansInsurance CoverageInsurance, HospitalizationLinear ModelsMaleMedically UninsuredOutcome Assessment, Health CarePsychotic DisordersUnited StatesYoung AdultInsurancePsychosisSchizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID31480928
PMCPMC7605277
OpenAlexW2971608822

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.