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PPACA shields young adults from ER costs

A popular and key aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that allows young adults up to age 26 to stay on their parents health coverage has shielded them, their families and hospitals from the full financial consequences of serious medical emergencies, according to new research.

By Kathryn Mayer | Updated on May 31, 2013
New research finds that young adults are being shielded from ER costs because of PPACA. (Jason Redmond/Associated Press/file)

A popular and key aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that allows young adults up to age 26 to stay on their parents’ health coverage has “shielded them, their families and hospitals from the full financial consequences of serious medical emergencies,” according to new research.

A new RAND Corporation study found that $147 million in medical care service in hospital emergency departments was newly covered by private insurance during a one-year period. Without the new regulation, those costs would have been paid by young people and their families, or been written off by hospitals as uncompensated care, researchers said.

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