Paul C. Kuo, MD, is the chairman of the University of South Florida Department of Surgery. Before that, he held various leading positions at Duke University and Loyola University Medical Center. A distinguished researcher, Paul C. Kuo, MD, has written a paper that examines the influence of the expansion of Medicaid on vascular surgery.
The Obama administration passed the Affordable Care Act and expanded Medicaid eligibility. While numerous studies found that the expansion improved the accessibility of medical care, the studies largely omitted patients with major vascular problems. A team of experts, including Dr. Kuo, assessed the impact of the Medicaid expansion on vascular patients. The team used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Database for this research. Researchers looked at patients aged 18 to 64 who had surgeries for a range of vascular problems, including thoracic aortic aneurysm and chronic kidney failure. The team found that the number of vascular surgery inpatient admissions rose across the board in states that expanded Medicaid. Vascular-related surgeries, such as lower extremity amputation, increased as well. The researchers concluded that Medicaid expansion helped make vascular surgery more accessible.
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