Health Care Utilization Patterns Of Rural Medicaid Recipients, 2012, 35 States

On April 10, 2018, the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center released this findings brief on the health care utilization patterns of rural Medicaid recipients in 2012 in 35 states. The purpose of the brief was to examine inpatient and other institutional encounters among individuals enrolled in Medicaid prior to expansion in 2014, using enrollment and claims data from the Medicaid Analytic Extract Files.

Key findings included:

• Rural and urban Medicaid enrollees across the 35 study states were similar in the likelihood of any hospitalization (9.3% and 9.2%, respectively).
• Rural non-Hispanic African-American enrollees were more likely . . .