Evaluating the role of Medicaid expansion on survival in early-onset colorectal cancer
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid eligibility to states on staggered timelines, creating a natural experiment to assess health policy effects on colorectal cancer (CRC) outcomes. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective quasi-experimental cohort study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (2006-2019). Patients with CRC
Fields of Study & Subjects
Healthcare Policy and Management
Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
Publication details
- Journal / source
- JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1724–1730
- Publication date
- 3 April 2026
- Language
- EN