Medicaid Expansion and Incidence of Kidney Failure among Nonelderly Adults.
Rebecca ThorsnessShailender SwaminathanYoojin LeeBenjamin D SommersRajnish MehrotraKevin H NguyenDaeho KimMaricruz Rivera-HernandezAmal N TrivediPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2021)
The ACA Medicaid expansion was associated with an initial reduction in kidney failure incidence among the entire, nonelderly, adult population in the United States; but the changes did not persist in the later postexpansion period. Further study is needed to determine the long-term association between Medicaid expansion and changes in kidney failure incidence.