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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 … reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce that demonstrates that divorce is optimal when a couple's joint … qualify for Medicaid as exogenous variation in the incidence of divorce (as it was only implemented by some states). We find …
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Moneyball in Medicare : Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Norton, Edward C.; Lawton, Emily; Li, Jun - 2021
One of the most important changes to the United States health care system over the last two decades is the emergence of pay-for-performance as a way to encourage hospitals and other providers to improve quality of care. Unlike fee-for-service, these value-based purchasing programs measure...
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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...
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Health Care in a Multipayer System : the Effects of Health Care Service Demand Among Adults Under 65 on Utilization and Outcomes in Medicare
Glied, Sherry - 2014
Doctors and hospitals in the United States serve patients covered by many types of insurance. This overlap in the supply of health care services means that changes in the prices paid or the volume of services demanded by one group of patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines...
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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing, Marriage, and Tax Filing Behavior : Evidence from Tax Data
Heim, Bradley - 2017
We use panel U.S. tax data spanning 2008-2013 to study the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) young adult provision on two important demographic outcomes—childbearing and marriage. The impact on childbearing is theoretically ambiguous, as gaining insurance may increase access to...
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The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals : Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid
Cabral, Marika; Carey, Colleen M.; Miller, Sarah - 2023
Provider payments are the key determinant of insurance generosity within many health insurance programs covering low-income populations. This paper analyzes the effects of a large, federally-mandated provider payment increase for primary care services provided to low-income elderly and disabled...
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Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
Currie, Janet - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an important predictor of children's health status, the importance...
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All Medicaid Expansions are Not Created Equal : The Geography and Targeting of the Affordable Care Act
Garthwaite, Craig - 2019
We use comprehensive patient-level discharge data to study the effect of Medicaid on the use of hospital services. Our analysis relies on cross-state variation in the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, along with within-state variation across ZIP Codes in exposure to the expansion. We...
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Industry Input in Policymaking : Evidence from Medicare
Chan, David - 2018
In setting prices for physician services, Medicare solicits input from a committee that evaluates proposals from industry. We investigate whether this arrangement leads to prices biased toward the interests of committee members. We find that increasing a measure of affiliation between the...
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The Effect of Disenrollment from Medicaid on Employment, Insurance Coverage, Health and Health Care Utilization
DeLeire, Thomas - 2018
This study examines the effect of a Medicaid disenrollment on employment, sources of health insurance coverage, health, and health care utilization of childless adults using longitudinal data from the 2004 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. From July through September 2005,...
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