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Can amputation save the hospital? : the impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on demand and welfare ; conference paper
Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Lucarelli, Claudio; … - 2013
This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexi- bility (Flex) Program on rural resident … hospital choice and welfare. The Flex program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339965
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Does Disability Explain State-Level Differences in the Quality of Medicare Beneficiary Hospital Inpatient Care?
Armour, Brian - 2014
the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … also explains state-level differences in quality of hospital care. The quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital care was … in the score of the state's quality of hospital care. Without explicitly incorporating strategies to eliminate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751833
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The Effects of Physician and Hospital Integration on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Health Outcomes
Koch, Thomas - 2018
We consider whether hospital acquisitions of physicians lead to improved clinical outcomes for Medicare patients aged … results indicate that hospital acquisitions of existing physician practices have no statistically significant clinical benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913873
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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Tello Trillo, Daniel S.; … - 2019
We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034281
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Savings Medicare Beneficiaries Need for Health Expenses : Some Couples Could Need as Much as $350,000
Fronstin, Paul - 2017
This paper examines the amount of savings Medicare beneficiaries are projected to need to cover program deductibles, premiums and other health expenses in retirement. For the purposes of this study, health expenses include premiums for Medicare Parts B and D, premiums for Medigap Plan F, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964245
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Information and Drug Prices : Evidence from the Medicare Discount Drug Card Program
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2006
In early 2004, the U.S. Government initiated the Medicare Discount Drug Card Program, under which a large amount of pharmacy-level price data pertaining to over 800 drugs has been released weekly on the Medicare Web site continuously between May 29, 2004 and October 2005. This extensive...
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Adult Medicaid Benefit Generosity and Receipt of Recommended Health Services among Low-Income Children : The Spillover Effects of Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage Expansions
Lipton, Brandy J. - 2019
Low-income children are less likely to receive recommended health services than their high-income counterparts. This paper examines whether the design of parental Medicaid benefit packages could serve as a mechanism for reducing income-based disparities in unmet health care needs, considering...
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Medicaid and Provider Supply
Huh, Jason - 2020
One of the main goals of public health insurance expansions is to increase access to health care services, but doing so may require providers to move to previously underserved areas. Whether and to what extent any such relocation occurs remains an open question. I study how providers choose...
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The Medicaid Gentrification Myth
Payne, John B. - 2012
This paper examines the question of whether wealthy middle-class families are sheltering large sums of money in abusive financial arrangements in order to qualify for Medicaid benefits for nursing home patients, possibly endangering the fiscal integrity of the program. This paper argues that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712888
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What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care
Wallace, Jacob - 2021
Leveraging the random assignment of over 50,000 Medicaid enrollees in New York, I present causal evidence that narrow networks are a blunt instrument for reducing health care spending. While narrower networks constrain spending, they do so by generating hassle costs that reduce quantity, with...
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