Medicaid Expansion and Pent-up Demand for Total Joint Replacement

Pent-up demand for surgery in the Manaus metropolitan region

Waiting lines in healthcare reflect an imbalance between the availability and the demand for medical services. This study aimed to analyze the prevalence and factors associated with the pent-up demand for surgical procedures in the Manaus metropolitan region.We performed a population-based cross-sectional study in 2015. Pent-up demand was based on self-report by the participants; those who repo...

The Baby Boom, "Pent-Up" Demand, and Future House Prices*

Real house prices are forecast to rise over the next two decades by about the same amount they rose over the past two decades. The longer-run positive trends in real incomes and population size and the advance of the baby boom into ages of greater effective demand for houses are forecast to raise real house prices 10%. Simulation indicates that the demand for houses, and thus the prices of hous...

Anesthesia for total joint replacement.

Estimating Demand for Care After a Medicaid Expansion

To estimate how the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansions will affect demand for services, we measured ambulatory care utilization among adult patients who gained insurance during Oregon's 2008 Medicaid expansion. Using electronic health record data from 67 community health centers, we assessed pre- and postcoverage utilization among patients who gained insurance, compared with patients con...

Complications of total joint replacement