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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations
Dafny, Leemore - 2000
terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471220
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Competition, Payer, and Hospital Quality
Gowrisankaran, Gautam - 2002
outcome variables are the risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates for pneumonia (estimated by the authors) and acute myocardial … infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469503
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Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery : Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior
Chernew, Michael - 2001
infer returns from hospital entry behavior. We estimate a model of patient flows for CABG patients that provides inputs for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470084
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Hospital Market Structure and the Behavior of Not-for-Profit Hospitals : Evidence from Responses to California's Disproportionate Share Program
Duggan, Mark - 2000
I exploit a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financial incentives to examine whether the behavior of private not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470770
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The Effect of Medicaid on Adult Hospitalizations : Evidence from Tennessee’s Medicaid Contraction
Ghosh, Ausmita - 2015
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions aimed to improve access to care and health status among low-income non-elderly adults. Previous work has established a link between Medicaid coverage expansion and reduced mortality (Sommers, Baicker and Epstein, 2012), but the mechanism of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457089
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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?
Currie, Janet - 2000
Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471100
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The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality : Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population
Skinner, Jonathan - 2004
Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured by Medicare expenditures, the answer is yes. During 1987-2001, low income households experienced an increase of 78 percent ($2624) in per capita expenditures, double the...
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Administrative Burdens and Child Medicaid Enrollments
Arbogast, Iris; Chorniy, Anna; Currie, Janet M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Following decades of increasing child access to public health insurance, enrollments fell in many states between 2016 and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment of the role of several common types of administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435142
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Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy : Authorization Restrictions in Medicare
Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C.; Burn, Samantha; Layton, Timothy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
High administrative costs in U.S. health care have provoked concern among policymakers over potential waste, but many of these costs are generated by managed care policies that trade off bureaucratic costs against reductions in moral hazard. We study this trade-off for prior authorization...
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Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid Enrollment and Funding : Implications for Future Policy and Research
Dague, Laura; Ukert, Benjamin D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The COVID-19 related public health emergency led to federal legislation that changed the landscape of Medicaid coverage for low-income people in the United States. Beginning in 2020, policy responses led to a surge in Medicaid enrollment due to federal rules preventing Medicaid disenrollment,...
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