Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
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 …