. This increase has been concentrated in the Medicaid caseload nationwide. One of the most striking changes in Medicaid has … been the transition from fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement to Medicaid managed care (MMC), which had taken place in 80 …% of states by 2016. Using Medicaid claims from South Carolina, we show that this change contributed to the increase in …

prescription psychotropic medication use. We examine the effect of state-level Medicaid expansion following the 2014 implementation …

In recent years, Medicaid has experienced a dramatic increase in spending on prescription drugs in general and … psychotropic medications in particular. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of increased Medicaid spending on …/Hyperactivity disorder, controlling for concomitant increases in Medicaid eligibility thresholds and expansion into managed care for mental …

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 …