The report uses data from nearly 21,900 U.S. health care providers, including 4,900 primary care physicians.
Here are four insights:
1. More than one-in-five primary care visits in Medicaid-expansion states were from Medicaid patients, compared to fewer than one-in-10 visits by Medicaid patients in non-expansion states.
2. More than 67 percent of Medicaid patients had a follow-up visit within 18 months in expansion states.
3. Medicaid visits to PCPs in expansion states jumped dramatically over the course of 2014, the year the ACA’s expansion took effect.
4. Thirteen percent of practices that did not accept Medicaid patients in 2013 accepted them in 2014 in states that expanded.
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