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Activity Number: 163
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2012 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Health Policy Statistics Section
Abstract - #306370
Title: Monitoring Health Care Access and Utilization Following Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Using the National Health Interview Survey
Author(s): Renee M Gindi*+ and Robin A Cohen and Whitney K Kirzinger
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782, United States
Keywords: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) ; National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) ; Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Abstract:

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced changes in health care access, with some provisions implemented in 2010 and 2011. Monitoring the impacts of these changes requires not only establishing baseline information but collecting additional detail on their effects. One source of such information is the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Questions that have been on the NHIS for several years or more can be used to establish baseline estimates and to monitor the impacts of the ACA provisions as they are implemented. Questions added to the NHIS in 2011 provide more detail about topics in health care access and utilization addressed by the legislation. Using NHIS data, we examine four topics of interest: public perception of the financial burden of medical bills; expanded access to health insurance for young adults aged 19-25; reasons for emergency room use among adults; and state-level estimates of health insurance coverage.


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