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 …

stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to … community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays when capacity binds to admit more … episode-based provider reimbursement is more effective in shortening Medicaid stays than increasing resident cost …

combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the … treatment intensity from state participation in the Medicaid expansion and pre-ACA uninsured rates. Results suggest that the ACA … led to sizeable improvements in access to health care in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states, with the gains …

We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use … expansion, Medicaid-reimbursed prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient settings increased by 33% in … states Medicaid insurance and use of Medicaid to pay for treatment increased by 58% and 57% following the expansion. In an …

through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three … variation in pre-ACA uninsured rates and state Medicaid expansion decisions, we show that the ACA increased preventive care … law, as opposed to the Medicaid expansion. We also conduct subsample analyses by income and age. …

stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to … community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays when capacity binds to admit more … episode-based provider reimbursement is more effective in shortening Medicaid stays than increasing resident cost …

Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … maternal health indicators. We find that the 13 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility during the study period was …

We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – the expansion of Medicaid eligibility – affected health … implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we find that the ACA Medicaid expansion substantially increased …

combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics — the 1957-58 "Asian Flu … heterogeneity in the underlying severity of these two shocks across counties, we find no relationship between Medicaid eligibility … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to …

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to … extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The …