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. 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 …
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A significant literature has documented trend increases in pain among Americans over the last two or three decades. There is no single explanation seeming to work well for the increase. We show that, rather than resulting from a smooth upward trend, the increase was almost entirely concentrated...
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This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the 1996-2019 restricted-use version of the Medical...
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indigent patients through Medicaid and providing hospitals with supplemental payments through programs such as Medicaid …
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This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health economics only more so: uncertainty and variation in treatments are greater; the assumption of patient self-interested behavior is more dubious; response to financial incentives such...
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Background: Parity in insurance coverage for mental health and substance abuse has been a key goal of mental health and substance abuse care advocates in the United States during most of the past 20 years. The push for parity began during the era of indemnity insurance and fee for service...
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There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality differences between managed care and traditional fee-for-service...
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Increases in the activity of managed care organizations are likely to have a number of implications for the structure and functioning of the US health care market. One possibility is that increases in managed care activity may have 'spillover effects,' influencing the performance of the entire...
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In several states, the Medicaid program allows beneficiaries a choice among multiple managed care plans and traditional … Medicaid. This paper uses data from a survey of New York City Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in conventional Medicaid and in 5 … Medicaid managed care plans to study the effect of plan selection on measures of satisfaction with care, access to a regular …
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