Here are seven statistics on how the PPACA impacts physician practices, broken down by Medicaid-expansion states and non-expansion states, according to data from ACAView, an initiative by athenahealth and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Medicaid-expansion states
- Primary care visits from Medicaid patients in expansion states increased from 15.6 percent in 2013 to 21.5 percent in 2015.
- Medicaid patients who were new in 2014, the first year of the PPACA expansion, returned to the same practice at a higher rate than those who were new to Medicaid in 2013.
- Uninsured adult visits dropped 2.2 percentage points, from 4.6 percent in 2013 to 2.4 percent in 2015.
- Commercial visits decreased from 65.2 percent in 2013 to 62.8 percent in 2015 in expansion states.
Non-expansion states
- The proportion of visits from Medicaid patients to primary care providers in non-expansion states dropped from 9.4 percent in 2013 to 8.9 percent in 2015.
- Uninsured adult visits dropped 1.5 percentage points between 2013 and 2015, from 7.2 percent to 5.7 percent.
- Visits from commercially-insured patients increased from 66.1 percent in 2013 to 68.1 percent in 2015.
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