Medicaid expansion may be linked to better kidney, liver transplant access in children

PHILADELPHIA — Expansion of Medicaid via the Affordable Care Act may be tied to less likelihood of transplant waitlist removal due to illness or death, a speaker here said.
The insurance program could also increase pediatric kidney waitlist additions.
“To date, preliminary work is shown that the ACA has improved general access to health care and transplantation [but] effects on pediatric implementation are not yet fully defined,” Donna C. Koo, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, said at the American Transplant Congress. The goal was to study was to “evaluate

PHILADELPHIA — Expansion of Medicaid via the Affordable Care Act may be tied to less likelihood of transplant waitlist removal due to illness or death, a speaker here said.
The insurance program could also increase pediatric kidney waitlist additions.
“To date, preliminary work is shown that the ACA has improved general access to health care and transplantation [but] effects on pediatric implementation are not yet fully defined,” Donna C. Koo, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, said at the American Transplant Congress. The goal was to study was to “evaluate