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Poster

Description

Uncompensated health care and Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding are a national crisis in the United States, and uninsured patients are a major contributor. Undocumented Immigrants (UIs) are a large component of the uninsured patient population.

 The purpose of this study is to evaluate for efficacy and taxpayer value two large-scale potential solutions: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and expanded Medicaid.

 The method of research included a variety of key terms in electronic search databases such as CINAHL Complete, PubMed, and Google Scholar, and only articles published between 2014 and 2018 by peer reviewed journals or gray literature (.gov) were included.

 A Limitation of this study was the inability to conduct a single or limited number of systematic searches of related studies or articles and filter the results using a prescribed set of inclusion or exclusion criteria.

 Data results suggest that while expanded Medicaid does reduce uncompensated health care, it has been shown to increase ED use and overcrowding, at least in the short-term. Therefore, the notion that expanded Medicaid successfully reduces ED overcrowding, was found to be false. FQHCs are a reasonable solution, but there are too few, and relatively unheard of among the target population

Department

Physician Assistant Studies

Date of Work

2019

Publication Date

2019

Keywords

Uncompensated health care, undocumented Immigrants, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Expanded Medicaid

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Reducing The Health Care Burden Caused by Undocumented Immigrants

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