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UCLA Center For Health Policy Research
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Studies reveal rise and fall of ER use
The idea that Medicaid expansion will wreak havoc with state budgets due to increased hospital use by the previously-uninsured was challenged by results of a recent study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. While rates of hospital and emergency room use rose soon after people enrolled in low-cost, government health plans, utilization of these services dropped off within a year, researchers found.
Diabetes drives expensive hospitalizations in CA
Diabetes is endemic in the United States, and it generates an outsized number of pricey hospitalizations in California, according to a new study.
