Affordable care act: ObamacareStatistically testing ER utilization rates as a percentage of ER + Inpatient encounters and Influenza and Strep throat encounters as a percentage of total ER encounters by mapping those trends to Affordability Care Act dates, and then determining the statistical differences based on hospital type and Patient payer.

Current Working Questions:

Did the emergency rooms visits and

inpatients rise under Obamacare?

-Specific Region

What was the impact on primary health

care? Influenza and Strep throat encounters?

Is there any difference based on hospital

type or patient payer?

Methodology:Affordability care act understanding.Studying proposed reforms and counter claimsExtracting, cleaning, transforming and merging dataStatistically verifying various ER count over yearsBreaking the data by region, hospital type and patient payerStatistically studying the impact on Primary health

About:Tanu Srivastav Management Information SystemsGraduate Research Assistanttanu.srivastav@okstate.edu405.762.3717