among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spending. We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the … timing and county-specific implementation of Medicaid managed care mandates in two contiguous regions of Kentucky. We find …

This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation … increases the likelihood of being uninsured and decreases formal Medicaid participation. This finding is consistent with an … increase in “conditional coverage” – waiting until medical care is needed to sign up or re-enroll in Medicaid. These effects …

). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence … on employment for health insurance, I estimate large job lock and job push effects. For married workers, Medicaid …

Medicaid expenditures account for a sizeable proportion of U.S. GDP - $360.3 billion in 2009 or 2.55 percent of GDP … for the Medicaid program. However, there is little literature on the effect on healthcare spending from earlier expansions … of Medicaid such as the introduction of the SCHIP program. Moreover, the effect of welfare reform (i.e. Personal …

Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … Medicaid prior to the reform in the eligibility category for which the reform is most likely to be binding. We find that these …

Having low income is one of the requirements for Medicaid eligibility. Given that earning ability is unobservable, once … income is low. This can affect the ability of Medicaid to target the most disadvantaged people given that a large fraction of … its beneficiaries do not work. In this paper we ask two questions: 1) Does Medicaid significantly distort work incentives …