Dr. Avinash Bhakta is available to discuss his recent study showing a substantial increase – 230 percent – in the number of Kentucky Medicaid patients who received colon cancer screening post-expansion compared to Medicaid patients who received screening prior to the expansion. Additionally, Bhakta noted a 27 percent decrease in risk of death statewide after the expansion.
Prior to Medical expansion, 14 percent of Kentuckians were uninsured. Post-ACA Medicaid Expansion, that number dropped to about six percent.
Bhakta is a colorectal surgeon at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
Link to news release on study: http://uknow.uky.edu/uk-healthcare/study-aca-medicaid-expansion-shows-impact-colon-cancer-screenings-survival-ky
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