The Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act resulted in a 19% annual increase in Medicaid-insured cancer patients participating in publicly funded clinical trials, according to researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the SWOG Statistics and Data Management Center and Columbia University.
, compounded over time, resulted in 52% more patients with Medicaid insurance participating in cancer clinical trials than was projected during the same time period had the policy not been implemented.
Using data from the SWOG Cancer Research Network of 51,751 people with cancer who participated in trials from 1992 to 2020, the researchers compared trends in Medicaid enrollment before the policy was enacted to trends in the years following its implementation. In the years before the policy was enacted, researchers observed that enrollment in Medicaid corresponded largely to fluctuations in national economic conditions, especially patterns of unemployment.
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