Abstract
Hennepin Health, a Medicaid accountable care organization, began serving early expansion enrollees (very low-income childless adults) in 2012. It uses an integrated care model to address social and behavioral needs. We compared health care utilization in Hennepin Health with other Medicaid managed care in the same area from 2012 to 2014, controlling for demographics, chronic conditions, and enrollment patterns. Homelessness and substance use were higher in Hennepin Health. Overall adjusted results showed Hennepin Health had 52% more emergency department visits and 11% more primary care visits than comparators. Over time, modeling a 6-month exposure to Hennepin Health, emergency department and primary care visits decreased and dental visits increased; hospitalizations decreased nonsignificantly but increased among comparators. Subgroup analysis of high utilizers showed lower hospitalizations in Hennepin Health. Integrated, accountable care under Medicaid expansion showed some desirable trends and subgroup benefits, but overall did not reduce acute health care utilization versus other managed care.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 46-59 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Medical Care Research and Review |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors would like to acknowledge financial support for this work from The Commonwealth Fund (grant number 20140726) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (grant number UL1TR000114).
Funding Information:
We acknowledge partnership and support from the Minnesota Department of Human Services in provision of data and technical assistance with data management. We acknowledge support in the early design and conceptualization of this work and formatting of the data from Doug Wholey and Rob Kreiger. We acknowledge support for preparation of this article and coordination of this project from Laura Guzman-Corrales and Melissa Adkins. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
Keywords
- Medicaid expansion
- accountable care organization
- integrated care models
- marginal structural models
- social determinants of health
