How Western Kentucky leveraged Medicaid expansion to increase access to health care

How Western Kentucky leveraged Medicaid expansion to increase access to health care

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Case study (Commonwealth fund)
Author(s):
Klein, Sarah, author
Hostetter, Martha, author
McCarthy, Douglas, author
Contributor(s):
Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, July 2017
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data
Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data
Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data
Quality of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data
Kentucky
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
The hospital referral region encompassing Paducah and its neighboring counties, most in rural Western Kentucky, distinguished itself as one of only a handful of U.S. regions to improve on a majority of measures tracked by the Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2016 Edition. The most striking gains were tied to the state's Medicaid expansion, which added nearly 500,000 low-income adults to the program. Local leaders who were concerned about lack of access to care relied on the expansion to recruit federally qualified health centers to the region, while hospitals and other providers enhanced access through school-based clinics, which offer urgent and behavioral health services.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101712694 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101712694