Effects of Affordable Care Act on Uninsured Hospitalization

By Nima Khodakarami PhD and Benjamin Ukert PhD

Evidence from Texas

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Medical care services before the health service is performed—became standard practice beginning with Medicare and Medicaid legislation in the 1960s.

Although research has uncovered disparities in prior coverage for cancer patients based on race, little has been known to date on the role of prior authorization in increasing or decreasing these disparities.

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To learn more about the issue, Benjamin Ukert, Ph.D., an assistant professor of health policy and management in the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and a colleague at Penn State conducted a retrospective study of data provided by a major national commercial insurance provider on 18,041 patients diagnosed with cancer between Jan. 1st, 2017, and April 1st, 2020.

The study is published in the journal Health Services Research.

READ: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-6773.14334

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