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Examining Medicaid Expansion and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

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  • Jevay Grooms
  • Alberto Ortega

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As the drug epidemic continues to cripple communities and disrupt our country, identifying and understanding state and federal policies which have helped alleviate the burden of substance use disorders (SUDs) is imperative. In 2010, the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health coverage and services offered to millions of Americans. Prior to the ACA, treatment for substance use disorders was not included in all medical coverage. We examine the brief literature on ACA Medicaid Expansion and SUDs and complement this literature by including the effects on measures of supply and efficacy of SUD treatment.

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  • Jevay Grooms & Alberto Ortega, 2019. "Examining Medicaid Expansion and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 109, pages 187-192, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:187-92
    Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20191090
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    1. Hamersma, Sarah & Maclean, Johanna Catherine, 2021. "Do expansions in adolescent access to public insurance affect the decisions of substance use disorder treatment providers?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    2. Cohle, Zachary & Ortega, Alberto, 2023. "The effect of the opioid crisis on patenting," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 493-521.
    3. Alberto Ortega, 2023. "Medicaid Expansion and mental health treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(4), pages 755-806, April.
    4. Lindsey Rose Bullinger & Maithreyi Gopalan & Caitlin McPherran Lombardi, 2023. "Impacts of publicly funded health insurance for adults on children's academic achievement," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 89(3), pages 860-884, January.
    5. Lindsey Rose Bullinger, 2021. "Child Support and the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(1), pages 42-77, January.
    6. Erkmen G. Aslim & Murat C. Mungan & Carlos I. Navarro & Han Yu, 2022. "The Effect of Public Health Insurance on Criminal Recidivism," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(1), pages 45-91, January.
    7. Maclean, Johanna Catherine & Tello-Trillo, Sebastian & Webber, Douglas, 2023. "Losing insurance and psychiatric hospitalizations," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 205(C), pages 508-527.
    8. Stritzel, Haley, 2022. "State-level changes in health insurance coverage and parental substance use-associated foster care entry," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 305(C).
    9. Lindsey Rose Bullinger & Sebastian Tello-Trillo, 2021. "Connecting Medicaid and child support: evidence from the TennCare disenrollment," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 785-812, September.
    10. Alice M. Ellyson & Jevay Grooms & Alberto Ortega, 2022. "Flipping the script: The effects of opioid prescription monitoring on specialty‐specific provider behavior," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(2), pages 297-341, February.
    11. Johanna Catherine Maclean & Justine Mallatt & Christopher J. Ruhm & Kosali Simon, 2022. "The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 703(1), pages 15-49, September.

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    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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