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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations : Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

Maclean, Catherine - 2019

shifted to private insurance, Medicare, and patients, while SUD treatment financing shifted entirely to patients. We …

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Buchmueller, Thomas C. - 2019

We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – the expansion of Medicaid eligibility – affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed workers. Comparing trends in states that implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did...

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Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health

Bhalotra, Sonia; Nunes, Letícia; Rocha, Rudi - 2021

emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

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Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Werbeck, Anna - 2020

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected …

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The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Courtemanche, Charles - 2017

This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of the ACA as well as pre-treatment differences in...

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Do Hospitals Respond to Increasing Prices by Supplying Fewer Services?

Salm, Martin - 2015

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the … affecting the relative prices for different types of patients. Based on administrative data, we find that hospitals do indeed …

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Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2022

Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...

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Estimating Heterogeneous Take-Up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

Ham, John C. - 2011

We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and crowd-out. Specifically, we estimate: i) LATEs; ii) ATETs for the currently eligible; and iii) ATETs...

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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Echevin, Damien - 2014

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …. We find that the hospital length of stay of patients treated in departments that opted for the MC system increased on …

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