delivery, but this claim has little rigorous empirical support. We provide such support by assessing the impact of the Medicaid … eligibility leads to a significant decline in avoidable hospitalization: over this period Medicaid eligibility expansions were …

Medicaid's federal-state matching system of financing is the nation's largest example of fiscal federalism. Using … generous federal subsidies, the Affordable Care Act incentivized states to expand Medicaid, which became a state option in the … effects of state Medicaid expansion decisions. We find that Medicaid expansion increased total spending in expansion states by …

This paper examines the history, rules, and economic implications of the Medicaid program. I begin by providing a … patterns. I then turn to a review of the economic issues involved in studying the Medicaid program: assessing the impacts on … questions surrounding the Medicaid program …

outpatient settings and lowers Medicaid costs (the so-called offset effect'). To evaluate this hypothesis we exploit a large … increase in physician fees in the Tennessee Medicaid program, using Georgia as a control. We find that beneficiaries shifted …

lower income households in the U.S. We assess the validity of this hypothesis by investigating the effect of Medicaid, the … information on the eligibility of each household for Medicaid. Exogenous variation in Medicaid eligibility is provided by the … dramatic expansion of this program over the 1984-1993 period. We document that Medicaid eligibility has a sizeable and …