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 …

a higher asset threshold for Medicaid eligibility for LTC coverage. We find that the program generates few new purchases …

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. …

In this paper, we examine the effects of recent parental Medicaid eligibility expansions on Medicaid participation and … three main results. First, the eligibility expansions result in significant increases in Medicaid participation; a “typical …” expansion increases Medicaid participation by about four percent of baseline coverage rates. Second, the participation effect is …

Medicaid provides health insurance for 54 million Americans. Using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure … (which subtracts out-of-pocket medical expenses from family resources), we estimated the impact of eliminating Medicaid. In … our counterfactual, Medicaid beneficiaries would become uninsured or gain other insurance. Counterfactual medical …