Association of Arkansas’s section 1115 Medicaid waiver with health insurance coverage

Jim P Stimpson, Sungchul Park and Fernando A Wilson

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-5

Abstract: Objective: Evaluate how the use of a Section 1115 waiver in Arkansas was associated with health insurance coverage compared to Medicaid expansion states that did not use a waiver. Methods: Difference in difference analysis was conducted of 1,320,790 adults aged 19–64 with family incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level from the 2010–2017 American Community Survey. Arkansas was compared to states that expanded without a waiver in calendar year 2014. States that expanded Medicaid with an approved Section 1115 waiver during the study period or expanded without a waiver after 2014 or did not expand Medicaid were excluded from the analysis. The outcome measures were no health insurance coverage, Medicaid coverage, employer sponsored private insurance, and non-group direct purchase private insurance. Results: Arkansas’s use of a waiver to expand Medicaid was associated with a lower uninsured rate (-3.7%, p

Date: 2020
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