This paper estimates the effect that premiums in Medicaid have on the length of enrollment of program beneficiaries …. Whether and how low income-families will participate in the exchanges and in states’ Medicaid programs depends crucially on … Wisconsin's Medicaid program to identify the effects of premiums on enrollment for low-income families. I use a 3-year …

among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spending. We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the … timing and county-specific implementation of Medicaid managed care mandates in two contiguous regions of Kentucky. We find …

I investigate how changes in fees paid to Medicaid physicians affect take-up among children in low-income families. The … existing literature suggests that the low level of Medicaid fee payments to physicians reduces their willingness to see … Medicaid patients, thus creating an access-to-care problem for these patients. For the identical service, current Medicaid …

The new comprehensive health reform, beginning in 2014, will require Medicaid to expand all elements of coverage to … adult Medicaid dental benefits, generating an unbiased estimate of the elasticity of demand for dental services is critical. …

both ability and altruism. It also allows inappropriate care by GPs to lead to more serious illnesses. The results are as … difference between GPs care and specialty care, and (ii) the distribution of profiles (diagnostic ability and altruism levels …