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Observational studyHealth services research2021

Insurance expansions and adolescent use of substance use disorder treatment.

Sarah Hamersma, Johanna Catherine Maclean

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Observational study in Health services research, 2021. 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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1citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sarah HamersmaDepartment of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Johanna Catherine MacleanDepartment of Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8581-0672
National Bureau of Economic Research · USSyracuse University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo provide evidence on the effects of expansions to private and public insurance programs on adolescent specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use. DATA SOURCE/STUDY

settingThe Treatment Episodes Data Set (TEDS), 1996 to 2017. STUDY

designA quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design using observational data. DATA COLLECTION: The TEDS provides administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment. PRINCIPAL

findingsExpansions of laws that compel private insurers to cover SUD treatment services at parity with general health care increase adolescent admissions by 26% (P < .05). These increases are driven by nonintensive outpatient admissions, the most common treatment episodes, which rise by 30% (P < .05) postparity law. In contrast, increases in income eligibility for public insurance targeting those 6-18 years old are not statistically associated with SUD treatment.

conclusionsPrivate insurance expansions allow more adolescents to receive SUD treatment, while public insurance income eligibility expansions do not appear to influence adolescent SUD treatment.

Indexed as

AdolescentChildCriminal LawHumansInsurance CoverageInsurance, HealthPatient AdmissionPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActPublic AssistanceReferral and ConsultationSubstance-Related DisordersUnited StatesYoung Adultadolescentshealth careparity lawspublic insurancesubstance use disorders

Identifiers

PMID33210305
PMCPMC7969204
OpenAlexW3100064723

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