{"id":13985,"date":"2019-09-09T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:04:39","slug":"a-study-found-that-new-medicaid-patients-went-to-hospitals-20-percent-more-after-they-got-coverage-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13985","title":{"rendered":"A study found that new Medicaid patients went to hospitals 20 percent more after they got coverage than before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">New Medicaid patients went to hospitals 20 percent more after they got coverage than before according to a study from the Brookings Institute. The study found it\u2019s not that the patients in the states that have expanded Medicaid suffer more emergencies; it\u2019s that if they are covered under Medicaid, they don\u2019t have to worry about debt collection. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2019\/09\/06\/rise-in-emergency-department-visits-accompanies-medicaid-expansion\/?kw=Rise%20in%20emergency%20department%20visits%20accompanies%20Medicaid%20expansion&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=enl&amp;utm_campaign=bprodaily&amp;utm_content=20190909&amp;utm_term=bpro\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Medicaid patients went to hospitals 20 percent more after they got coverage than before according to a study from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13986,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/13986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}