Medicaid Beneficiaries With Diabetes Are Twice As Likely To Have Avoidable Hospitalization Than Beneficiaries In Other Health Plans

Potentially avoidable emergency and urgent hospitalizations for complications of type 2 diabetes were twice as likely among Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured individuals than people covered by Medicare or private insurance. Uninsured people with type 2 diabetes were 2.1 times more likely to have a potentially avoidable diabetes related hospitalization, and Medicaid beneficiaries were 1.8 times more likely to have a diabetes related potentially avoidable hospitalization. The rates for Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes were only slightly higher than the rate for people with private insurance.

These findings were reported in “Medicaid-Insured & Uninsured Were More Likely . . .