Autistic people enrolled in Medicaid had an average life expectancy at birth of 64.9 years, roughly 14 years below the U.S. general population, according to one of the largest analyses of mortality in autistic Americans yet published.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, linked Medicaid records to National Death Index data for beneficiaries in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 2000 through 2020.
