The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low … reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment … rates on access and health outcomes for beneficiaries. In this paper, we exploit within-state variation in Medicaid …

are in health care, with numerous states requiring Medicaid agencies to provide interpreters or translated documents. In … indeed increase Medicaid take-up rates. I find that language access improves Medicaid take-up rates among LEP migrants …

This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically …, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare … across all treated states. Using a 5% significance level, we find no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of the …

We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes … that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for previously incarcerated eligible individuals. Using linked … administrative data on criminal convictions and health insurance claims, we find that reducing barriers in access to Medicaid for …

altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as … of overprovision which in turn rises patient benefits. -- Altruism; performance; motivation …

New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this … evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … prefers more or less horizontal differentiation is in general ambiguous and depends on the level of altruism. The more …

altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …