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indigent patients through Medicaid and providing hospitals with supplemental payments through programs such as Medicaid …
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the early 1980s, now provides a return that is close to zero. Medicaid appears to reimburse less than average variable …
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There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality differences between managed care and traditional fee-for-service...
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Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the...
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Air pollution is known to negatively affect a range of health outcomes. Wildfire smoke is an increasingly important contributor to air pollution, yet extreme smoke events are highly salient and could induce behavioral responses that alter health impacts. We combine geolocated data covering the...
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disease, which would have implications for long-run care needs as well as health outcomes. Such causal connections are often … difficult to establish, but we use Oregon's 2008 Medicaid lottery to assess the management of diabetes and asthma, as well as …. Effects of Medicaid on health care utilization appear similar for those with and without pre-lottery diagnoses of chronic …
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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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gained eligibility for Medicaid through a series of income-based expansions. Using natality data from the National Center for … Health Statistics, we estimate fertility responses to these eligibility expansions. We measure changes in state Medicaid … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …
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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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