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Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig; Ody, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

indigent patients through Medicaid and providing hospitals with supplemental payments through programs such as Medicaid …

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The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization : Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid

Cabral, Marika; Carey, Colleen; Miller, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Provider payments are the key determinant of insurance generosity within many health insurance programs covering low-income populations. This paper analyzes the effects of a large, federally-mandated provider payment increase for primary care services provided to low-income elderly and disabled...

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Does Medicare Save Lives?

Card, David - 2007

The health insurance characteristics of the population changes sharply at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. But do these changes matter for health? We address this question using data on over 400,000 hospital admissions for people who are admitted through the emergency room for...

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Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard : Evidence from Medicare

Dave, Dhaval - 2006

Basic economic theory suggests that health insurance coverage may cause a reduction in prevention activities, but empirical studies have yet to provide much evidence to support this prediction. However, in other insurance contexts that involve adverse health events, evidence of ex ante moral...

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Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes : A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics

Yang, Zhou - 2004

There is much debate about whether the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill -- the greatest expansion of Medicare benefits since its creation in 1965 -- will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how insurance affects medical care utilization, and subsequently,...

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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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Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery : Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior

Chernew, Michael - 2001

the early 1980s, now provides a return that is close to zero. Medicaid appears to reimburse less than average variable …

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The Effect of Insurance Expansions on Smoking Cessation Medication Prescriptions : Evidence from ACA Medicaid Expansions

Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017

We explore the effects of recent Medicaid expansions on Medicaid-financed prescriptions for evidence-based smoking … medications sold in retail and online pharmacies for which Medicaid was a third-party payer. Our findings suggest that expansions … prescriptions were primarily financed by Medicaid programs and not patients, and that our estimates reflect increases in …

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Health Care in a Multipayer System : The Effects of Health Care Service Demand among Adults under 65 on Utilization and Outcomes in Medicare

Glied, Sherry A. - 2014

Doctors and hospitals in the United States serve patients covered by many types of insurance. This overlap in the supply of health care services means that changes in the prices paid or the volume of services demanded by one group of patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines...

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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...

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