We examine whether effects of a Medicaid policy that discontinued payment for Early
Elective Deliveries (EEDs)–a low-value mode of childbirth defined as a scheduled, non …

Background/Aims: We assessed the impact of Texas's Medicaid payment reform for early
elective delivery on clinical care practices and perinatal outcomes. Methods: We used …

This paper studies the effect of large changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates on the
quantity of care supplied to Medicare beneficiaries. In 2015, the payment parity provision of …

Evidence of increased health care utilization associated with the Medicaid expansion
suggests that clinicians increased capacity to meet demand. However, little is known about …

Medicaid is increasingly provided by private managed care plans. I examine the direct effect
of Medicaid privatization on health care utilization of Medicaid beneficiaries as well as the …

Objective To evaluate the effect of Medicaid fee changes on health care access, utilization,
and spending for Medicaid beneficiaries. Data Source We use the 2008 and 2012 waves of …

Changes in the way health insurers pay healthcare providers may not only directly affect the
insurer's patients but may also affect patients covered by other insurers. We provide …

While a large body of literature examines how physicians respond to financial incentives in
the context of Medicare and private payers, evidence on this issue for Medicaid is scant …

Objective: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has reduced the number of
uninsured Americans and, by extension, has reduced uncompensated care. However …

Rural hospitals differ from urban hospitals in many ways. For example, rural hospitals are
more reliant on public payers and have lower operating margins. In addition, enrollment in …