Medical Care
Innovative Data Linkage for Enhancing Identification and Understanding of Social Determinants of Health Among the Medicaid Population
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to economic and policy changes that increased Medicaid enrollment and reduced disenrollment. Tracking the impact of these changes on the composition of enrollees is crucial for resource allocation and program evaluation. However, Medicaid data currently lack the necessary demographic, social, and economic information about enrollees. Objective: Enhance Medicaid enrollment data by linking it with nationally representative survey data to compare the composition of enrollees acros …