21% Of Primary Care Visits By Consumers Covered By Medicaid In Expansion States, Compared To 9.6% In Non-Expansion States

In 2015, in states that expanded Medicaid to low-income, uninsured adults not otherwise eligible for Medicaid, about 21% of primary care visits were by consumers covered by Medicaid. In non-expansion states, about 9.6% of primary care visits were by consumers covered by Medicaid. About 2.0% of visits in expansion states were by uninsured consumers compared to 4.7% of consumer visits in non-expansion states.

These findings were reported in “Effects of the Affordable Care Act through 2015” by researcher with Athenahealth. The analysis is based on data about over 3.4 million visits to practices . . .