T2D Management Among a Community Clinic Patient Sample After California’s May 2022 Medicaid Expansion
Annie E. Ro, Jung Min Choi, Celina Morales, Nicole Tavares Kuhn, Cecilia Wu, Luohua Jiang · 2026
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Annie Ro and co-authors study in 2026 what changed for diabetes patients at two Los Angeles County community clinics after California widened Medicaid in May 2022. The expansion, called Medi-Cal, extended full coverage to low-income adults over fifty regardless of immigration status. The team examined 14,028 clinic encounters from May 2021 to June 2023, comparing undocumented and documented patients before and after the change.
Average age was 61.1 years, and four in five patients were Latino. After the expansion, blood sugar control improved across all encounters, with HbA1c down 0.22 points and body mass index down 0.15 points. Undocumented patients improved just as much as documented ones, with no significant difference by status. Patients who gained access to newer diabetes drug classes showed the largest drops. The authors read the pattern as an access effect reaching the whole clinic population.
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| CREATOR | Annie E. Ro, Jung Min Choi, Celina Morales, Nicole Tavares Kuhn, Cecilia Wu, Luohua Jiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23674 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |