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Sarah Hamersma1,2, Johanna Catherine Maclean3,4,5
1Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Objective:
To provide evidence on the effects of expansions to private and public insurance programs on adolescent specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use.
Data Source/Study Setting:
The Treatment Episodes Data Set (TEDS), 1996 to 2017.
Study Design:
A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design using observational data.
Data Collection:
The TEDS provides administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment.
Principal Findings:
Expansions of laws that compel private insurers to cover SUD treatment services at parity with general health care increase adolescent admissions by 26% (P < .05). These increases are driven by nonintensive outpatient admissions, the most common treatment episodes, which rise by 30% (P < .05) postparity law. In contrast, increases in income eligibility for public insurance targeting those 6-18 years old are not statistically associated with SUD treatment.
Conclusions:
Private insurance expansions allow more adolescents to receive SUD treatment, while public insurance income eligibility expansions do not appear to influence adolescent SUD treatment.
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