Medicaid Patients With Heart Failure Get Poor Follow-Up
The cohort included 9,857 adults with diabetes and first hospitalizations for heart failure who were covered by Alabama Medicaid during 2010-2019.
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The cohort included 9,857 adults with diabetes and first hospitalizations for heart failure who were covered by Alabama Medicaid during 2010-2019.
More than half of Medicaid-covered adults in Alabama with Type 2 diabetes did not receive follow-up health care within the recommended two-week period following hospitalization for newly-diagnosed heart failure, according to new research.
African American and Hispanic adults with Type 2 diabetes covered by Alabama Medicaid were less likely than white adults to have follow-up visits after heart failure hospitalization, finds new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association