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Welfare Reform and Health
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021
We investigate the relationship between welfare reform and health insurance, health care utilization, and self … comparison groups). We find that welfare reform is associated with reductions in health insurance coverage and specific measures … no statistically significant effects of reform on health status. Overall, effects are somewhat larger for Hispanics …
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Can You Get What You Pay for? Pay-for-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers
Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2010
Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757542
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Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice
Bundorf, M. Kate - 2010
Prices in government and employer-sponsored health insurance markets only partially reflect insurers' expected costs of coverage for different enrollees. This can create inefficient distortions when consumers self-select into plans. We develop a simple model to study this problem and estimate it...
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Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries
Chernew, Michael - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of Medicare HMO penetration on the medical care expenditures incurred by Medicare fee-for-service enrollees. We find that increasing penetration leads to reduced health care spending on fee-for-service beneficiaries. In particular, a one percentage point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759599
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Medicaid Physician Fees and Access to Care Among Children with Special Health Care Needs
Chatterji, Pinka - 2020
The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) to test whether Medicaid physician fees are correlated with access to health services and adequacy of insurance coverage among CSHCN. We use a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840855
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The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health
Miller, Sarah - 2018
This article examines how the financial health changes following an individual's enrollment in Michigan's Medicaid program (Healthy Michigan Program, HMP). We use unique data that links credit reports of HMP enrollees to Medicaid administrative data on enrollment and use of health care services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911083
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Common Practice : Spillovers from Medicare on Private Health Care
Barnett, Michael Lawrence - 2020
Efforts to raise the productivity of the U.S. health care system have proceeded slowly. One potential explanation is the fragmentation of payment across insurers. Each insurer's efforts to improve care could influence how doctors practice medicine for other insurers, leading to unvalued...
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Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data
Dague, Laura - 2016
We use a combination of administrative and survey data to estimate the fraction of individuals newly enrolled in public health coverage (Wisconsin's combined Medicaid and CHIP program) that had access to private, employer-sponsored health insurance at the time of their enrollment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008631
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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate
Layton, Timothy J. - 2017
The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health … market segment with the lowest rates of take-up and greatest concerns about access to robust coverage. As part of the reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955448
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Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?
Slusky, David - 2017
Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...
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