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Spending Reductions in the Medicare Shared Savings Program : Selection or Savings?

McWilliams, J. Michael - 2019

be earning shared-savings bonuses by selecting for lower-risk patients or providers with lower-risk panels. We conducted … three sets of analyses to examine risk selection in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. First, we estimated overall MSSP … savings through 2015 using a difference-in-differences approach and methods that eliminated selection bias from ACO program …

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The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly

Gardner, Lara - 2006

Medicaid policy variables that differ across states have a significant but small effect on the savings decisions of the elderly …

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The Concentration of Medical Spending : An Update

Cutler, David M. - 1999

In the last two decades, Medicare spending has doubled in real terms despite the fact that the health of Medicare beneficiaries improved over this period. The goals of this paper are to document how trends in spending by age have changed among elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the last decade...

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Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly

Engelhardt, Gary V. - 2010

We examine the impact of the expansion of public prescription drug insurance coverage from Medicare Part D on the elderly and find evidence of substantial crowd-out. Using detailed data from the 2002-7 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we estimate that the extension of Part D...

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Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses

De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2009

This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single people. Our framework allows for bequest motives and heterogeneity in medical expenses and life expectancies. We estimate the model using AHEAD data and the method of simulated moments. The data show that out-of-pocket medical...

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The impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid Dual-eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures

Basu, Anirban - 2008

Features of Part D gave rise to broad concern that the drug benefit would negatively impact prescription utilization among the six million dual eligible beneficiaries, either during the transition from state Medicaid to Part D coverage, or in the long-run. At the same time, Part D contained...

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Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization

Ketcham, Jonathan D. - 2008

We analyze Medicare Part D's net effect on elderly out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and use of prescription drugs using a dataset containing 1.4 billion prescription records from Wolters Kluwer Health (WKH). These data span the period December 2004-December 2007 and include pharmacy customers whose age...

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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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A Tax on Work for the Elderly : Medicare as a Secondary Payer

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2007

Medicare as a Secondary Payer (MSP) legislation requires employer-sponsored health insurance to be a primary payer for Medicare-eligible workers at firms with 20 or more employees. While the legislation was developed to better target Medicare services to individuals without access to...

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Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

Shang, Baoping - 2007

The introduction of Medicare Part D has generated interest in the cost of providing drug coverage to the elderly. Of paramount importance -- often unaccounted for in budget estimates -- are the salutary effects that increased prescription drug use might have on other Medicare spending. This...

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