Eliminating Gaps in Medicaid Coverage During Reentry After Incarceration

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ID11035698
AutoresElaine Michelle Albertson (0000-0002-8348-3428, Elaine Michelle Albertson is with the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Christopher Scannell is with the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and the National Clinician Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Neda Ashtari and Elizabeth Barnert are with the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.), Christopher Scannell (Elaine Michelle Albertson is with the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Christopher Scannell is with the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and the National Clinician Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Neda Ashtari and Elizabeth Barnert are with the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.), Christopher A Scannell (0000-0002-5944-4461, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System), Neda Ashtari (0009-0003-5582-113X, Elaine Michelle Albertson is with the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Christopher Scannell is with the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and the National Clinician Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Neda Ashtari and Elizabeth Barnert are with the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.), Elizabeth S Barnert (0000-0002-1664-4551, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System), Elizabeth Barnert (Elaine Michelle Albertson is with the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Christopher Scannell is with the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and the National Clinician Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Neda Ashtari and Elizabeth Barnert are with the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.)
Ano2020
Volume110
Fascículo3
Páginas317-321
Data de publicação2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2019.305400
PMID31944846
OpenAlexW3001415711
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas35

This commentary explores the health and social challenges associated with gaps in Medicaid health insurance coverage for adults and youths exiting the US criminal justice system, and highlights some potential solutions. Because a high proportion of recently incarcerated people come from low-income backgrounds and experience a high burden of disease, the Medicaid program plays an important role in ensuring access to care for this population. However, the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, or “inmate exclusion,” leads to Medicaid being terminated or suspended upon incarceration, often resulting in gaps in Medicaid coverage at release. These coverage gaps interact with individual-level and population-level factors to influence key health and social outcomes associated with recidivism. Ensuring Medicaid coverage upon release is an important, feasible component of structural change to alleviate health inequities and reduce recidivism. High-yield opportunities to ensure continuous coverage exist at the time of Medicaid suspension or termination and during incarceration prior to release

Criminal justice · Criminology · Environmental health · Health care · Medicaid · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Recidivism · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Policy and Management · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology