
Poorer Health of Surgery Patients on Medicaid May Alter Law's Bottom Line
Surgery patients covered by Medicaid arrive at the hospital in worse health, experience more complications, stay longer and cost more than patients with private insurance, a new study has found.
Surgery patients covered by
The study, by researchers at the
Although Medicaid patients in the study were generally younger than the privately insured patients, they were twice as likely to smoke and had higher rates of conditions that made surgery riskier. Those conditions, which can arise from years of poor health habits, include
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Source: The New York Times
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