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Medicaid expansion and opioid prescriptions: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Evidence is mixed on whether increased access to insurance, specifically through the ACA's Medicaid expansion, exacerbated the opioid public health crisis through increased opioid prescribing. Using survey data on retail prescription drug fills from 2008 to 2019, we did not find a significant relationship between Medicaid expansion and opioid prescribing in the newly eligible Medicaid population. It may be that the dangers of opioids were known well enough by the time of the Medicaid expansion that lack of access to care was no longer a binding constraint on opioid prescription receipt.

Source: Health Economics

Authors: Chandler McClellan, Asako Moriya

Institution: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Language: English

Topic: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

OpenAlex ID: W4401377463

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