. 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 …

Medicaid, the government program for providing health insurance to low-income and disabled Americans, is the largest … a private health plan in 2014. However, regulated competition in Medicaid differs from the typical model, emphasizing …. In this paper, we discuss how Medicaid combines the tools of competitive procurement with the tools of regulated …

privatizing the delivery of Medicaid drug benefits on drug spending. Exploiting granular data that allow us to examine drug … utilization, we find that drug spending would fall by 22.4 percent if the drug benefit was fully administered by Medicaid Managed …

Exploiting random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we identify plan-specific effects on …

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We …, and we conclude that Medicaid managed care had virtually no causal effect on, prenatal care use, birth outcomes, and …