NC’s Medicaid rolls grow by 1,000 a day under expansion

By Jaymie Baxley When North Carolina launched Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1, state officials said the measure would provide health insurance to an estimated 600,000 low-income adults over a span of two years. It took just two months to reach 58 percent of that goal. More than 346,400 newly eligible beneficiaries have been approved for […]

Medicaid expansion plan to cover more enrollees

By Rose Hoban More than 625,000 North Carolinians would gain health insurance coverage under the plans that the Department of Health and Human Services is drafting for federal regulators. That number was quoted Friday during a conference call of the Medical Care Advisory Committee, a group of health clinic managers, doctors and administrator from around […]

Effects of medicaid expansion on poverty disparities in health insurance coverage | International Journal for Equity in Health

Data This study used publicly available data that was waived from review by the Institutional Review Board at Tulane University. Data analysis was based on repeated cross-sectional national population level data from the 2012–2018 7-year American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. ACS is a very large survey, in terms of number […]