study the effects of recent and major eligibility expansions within Medicaid, a public insurance system for the poor in the … administrative data on medications for which Medicaid was a third-party payer over the period 2011 to 2017. Our findings suggest that … these expansions increased psychotropic prescriptions by 22.3%. We show that Medicaid, and not patients, financed these …

We study the impact of losing health insurance on criminal activity by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid …

-scale and unexpected Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee. Losing insurance did not influence behavioral healthcare …

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 …

We examine Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization … Medicaid insurance and use of Medicaid to pay for treatment increased by 13.9 percentage points (71%) and 12.9 percentage … points (75%) following the expansion. Post expansion, Medicaid-reimbursed prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in …