Emergency Department Encounters By Expected Payer, California 2009 To 2014

The report was released in April 2015 by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) of the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). The OSHPD data indicate that after California expanded Medicaid, emergency department volume among the expansion population increased by 50%. Visit volume had been about 800,000 visits, and rose to 1.16 million visits between the last quarter of 2013 and the last quarter of 2014 . . .