Trends in Emergency Medicaid expenditures for recent and undocumented immigrants

The analysis of the data related to the Emergency Medicaid program in North Carolina is used to describe the sociodemographic characteristics of the population-served, expenditures including the trends over time, and distribution of principal diagnoses by cost and by frequency of hospitalization. The results have shown that childbirth and complications of pregnancy accounted for the majority of Emergency Medicaid spending for undocumented immigrants in North Carolina.