Title The economic impact of Medicaid expansion on Pennsylvania / Carter C. Price, Julie M. Donohue, Evan Saltzman

Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 30 pages) : color illustrations Contents Methods -- Model scope and assumptions -- Economic impact -- State transfers -- Results -- Level and sources of insurance coverage -- Changes in federal spending -- Economic effects of federal spending -- State budgetary effects -- Effects on providers -- Regional effects Summary The Affordable Care Act is a substantial reform of the U.S. health care insurance system. Using the RAND COMPARE model, researchers assessed the act's potential economic effects on Pennsylvania, factoring in an optional expansion of Medicaid, and found the state would enjoy significant net benefits. With or without the expansion of Medicaid, the act will increase insurance coverage to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians, but the COMPARE model estimates that the expansion of Medicaid eligibility would cover an additional 350,000 people and bring more than $2 billion in federal spending into the state annually than if the state did not expand. Should the state expand Medicaid, the additional spending will add more than $3 billion a year to the state's GDP and support 35,000 jobs. But Medicaid expansion is not without cost for the state; the estimated cumulative effect on Pennsylvania's Medicaid spending will be $180 million higher with the expansion than without between 2014 and 2020. Substantial reductions in uncompensated care costs for hospitals are possible even without expansion, but savings to hospitals for uncompensated care funding are even larger with the Medicaid expansion, amounting to $550 million or more each year Notes "RAND Health." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30) Notes English In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR Subject United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. SUBJECT Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States) fast Subject Medicaid -- Economic aspects -- Pennsylvania Federal government -- Pennsylvania Insurance -- Pennsylvania Politics, Practical. Political science. Insurance. Social sciences. Public welfare. Non-governmental organizations. Social control. Federal aid. Government aid. Medical care. Economics. Federal government. Medicaid. Legislation as Topic Medical Assistance Government Insurance Appalachian Region Social Sciences United States Public Assistance Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Organizations Financing, Organized Social Control, Formal Health Care Economics and Organizations Financing, Government North America Delivery of Health Care Americas Geographic Locations Geographicals Economics Federal Government Medicaid Pennsylvania Insurance Coverage Social Welfare Patient Care governments (administrative bodies) insurance. social sciences. welfare services. federal aid. economics. federal government. MEDICAL -- Medicaid & Medicare. Social sciences Social control Public welfare Politics, Practical Political science Non-governmental organizations Medical care Medicaid Government aid Federal aid Economics Federal government Insurance Medicaid -- Economic aspects Public Health. Health & Biological Sciences. Medical Care Plans. Pennsylvania Form Electronic book Author Price, Carter C., author. Donohue, Julie M., author Saltzman, Evan, author Woods, Dulani, author Eibner, Christine, author. RAND Health. Rand Corporation. ISBN 9780833080301 083308030X 9780833081223 0833081225

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