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Impact of Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee on breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment

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States routinely may consider rollbacks of Medicaid expansions to address statewide economic conditions. To the authors' knowledge, little is known regarding the effects of public insurance contractions on health outcomes.… Click to show full abstract

States routinely may consider rollbacks of Medicaid expansions to address statewide economic conditions. To the authors' knowledge, little is known regarding the effects of public insurance contractions on health outcomes. The current study examined the effects of the 2005 Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee on breast cancer stage at the time of diagnosis and delays in treatment among nonelderly women.

Keywords: medicaid disenrollment; tennessee breast; breast cancer; cancer stage; disenrollment tennessee; cancer

Journal Title: Cancer
Year Published: 2017

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