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Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care

Kapur, Kanika - 2004

This study examined the effects of education, income, and wealth on medical care expenditures in two Medicare managed care plans. The study also sought to elucidate the pathways through which socioeconomic status (SES) affects expenditures, including preferences for health and medical care and...

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Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality : An Analysis of the Elderly

Gowrisankaran, Gautam - 2004

impact of managed care penetration on mortality from heart disease appears to follow a similar pattern. The estimates suggest …

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Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans

Lavetti, Kurt - 2016

The design of Medicare Part D causes most Medicare beneficiaries to receive fragmented health insurance, whereby prescription drugs and other medical care are covered by separate insurance plans. Fragmentation of insurance plans is potentially inefficient since separate insurers maximize profits...

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The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care : Medicare Advantage and Hospital Utilization

Baicker, Katherine - 2013

More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to improve the efficiency of health care delivery by promoting competition among private managed care plans. This paper explores the spillover effects of the Medicare Advantage...

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Managed Care and Health Care Expenditures : Evidence From Medicare

Baker, Laurence C. - 1997

Increases in the activity of managed care organizations are likely to have a number of implications for the structure and functioning of the US health care market. One possibility is that increases in managed care activity may have 'spillover effects,' influencing the performance of the entire...

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Does Medicaid Pay Too Much for Prescription Drugs? A Case Study of Atypical Anti-Psychotics

Duggan, Mark G. - 2003

has increased at more than 30% per year, with the $3 billion in 2001 Medicaid expenditures exceeding spending in any other … governments through the Medicaid program. In this paper, I estimate the productivity of these new drugs using a 5% sample of … California Medicaid recipients eligible for the program in at least one month between January of 1993 and December of 2001 and …

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution on Mental Health Outcomes

Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a "second pandemic" of anxiety and depression. While vaccines are primarily aimed at reducing COVID-19 transmission and mortality risks, they may have important secondary benefits. We use data from U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey merged to state-level...

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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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The Great Equalizer : Medicare and the Geography of Consumer Financial Strain

Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Wallace, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data, combined with a regression discontinuity approach, to estimate the effect of universal health insurance at age 65--when most Americans become eligible for Medicare--at the national, state, and local level. We find a 30 percent...

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The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12

Ho, Kate - 2016

We analyze the evolution of health insurer costs in Massachusetts between 2010-2012, paying particular attention to changes in the composition of enrollees. This was a period in which Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) increasingly used physician cost control incentives but Preferred...

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