Sachini Bandara|Haiden A. Huskamp|Lauren Riedel|Emma E. McGinty|Daniel Webster|Robert E. Toone|Colleen L. Barry
Leveraging The Affordable Care Act To Enroll Justice-Involved Populations In Medicaid: State And Local Efforts
Johns Hopkins University|Harvard University|Harvard University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Office of the Attorney General|Johns Hopkins University
affordable care act provides unprecedented opportunity enroll criminal justiceinvolved populations health insurance particularly medicaid result many state county corrections departments launched programs incorporate medicaid enrollment discharge planning study characterizes national landscape programs enrolling criminal justiceinvolved populations medicaid january 2015 provide overview sixtyfour programs operating jails prisons community probation parole systems enroll individuals detention incarceration release process describe variation among programs terms settings personnel timing eligibility screening target populations seventyseven percent programs located jails 56 percent use personnel public health social service agencies describe four practices facilitated medicaid enrollment process suspending instead terminating medicaid benefits upon incarceration presuming individual eligible medicaid process completed allowing enrollment incarceration accepting alternative forms identification enrollment criminal justice system complex one requires variety approaches enroll individuals medicaid future research examine approaches influence health criminal justice outcomes