Open AccessMedicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act: Potential Changes in Receipt of Mental Health Treatment Among Low-Income Nonelderly Adults With Serious Mental Illness
Author(s) -
Beth Han,
Joseph Gfroerer,
S. Janet Kuramoto,
Mir M. Ali,
Albert Woodward,
Judith L. Teich
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302521
Subject(s) - medicaid , receipt , mental health , medicine , mental illness , logistic regression , poverty , confidence interval , psychiatry , national health interview survey , environmental health , gerontology , health care , family medicine , population , world wide web , computer science , economics , economic growth
We designed this study to examine differences in receipt of mental health treatment between low-income uninsured nonelderly adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who were eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and their existing Medicaid counterparts. Assessing these differences might estimate the impact of the Medicaid expansion efforts under the ACA on receipt of mental health treatment among uninsured nonelderly adults with SMI.