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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2019 Jul 9;219(1):15–20. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.07.003

Table 2.

Impact Of The Affordable Care Act On Rates Of Admission By Diagnosis For Medicaid Patients Pre And Post Expansion

Expansion
States		 Non-Expansion
States
Pre* Post* Pre* Post* DID IRR P
Obesity 0.10 0.13 0.07 0.08 0.02 1.11 <.01
Paraoesophageal hernia 0.10 0.11 0.05 0.06 0.01 1.04 <.01
Pancreatic cancer 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.01 0.94 <.01
Diverticulitis 0.10 0.10 0.04 0.04 0.00 1.02 0.66
*

Pre-Medicaid expansion (2010–2013), post-Medicaid expansion (2014). The rate is admissions per 100 patients with a given diagnosis of interest at discharge. Abbreviations: incidence rate ratio (IRR) and difference-in-difference (DID).