In states where a Home- and Community-based Services Waiver is operating under the medicaid program, HCFA requires an independent assessment of the program. This paper reports on two assessments of the costs and use o...
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This study examines the relationship among types of insurance and characteristics of inpatient psychiatric treatment. Data include 46,998 adult psychiatric or substance abuse cases from all 1991-1992 Washington State ...
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This study examines the relationship among types of insurance and characteristics of inpatient psychiatric treatment. Data include 46,998 adult psychiatric or substance abuse cases from all 1991-1992 Washington State discharges from short-stay general hospitals. Large and significant differences among payers exist in treatment characteristics, controlling for diagnosis and patient age. For example, length of stay is longest among commercial and Medicare payers. Emergency admissions are more common among public payers, and elective admissions are more common among private payers, including HMOs, Results are discussed in light of policy and administration issues that will arise as financing for mental health services comes under greater capitation.
The use of external cephalic version (ECV) is increasingly seen as an important clinical management strategy for breech presentation infants. Currently, 75% of women with breech presentation at term undergo Cesarean d...
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The value of health-care services used by AFDC medicaid patients receiving care in a voluntary enrollment HMO is contrasted with that of health care services used by medicaid patients receiving fee-for-service (FFS) c...
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The value of health-care services used by AFDC medicaid patients receiving care in a voluntary enrollment HMO is contrasted with that of health care services used by medicaid patients receiving fee-for-service (FFS) care. The randomized assignment of medicaid recipients to the HMO or to FFS allows the authors to conclude that the apparent lower use of HMO enrollees results from the HMO's selection of patients with lower needs for care rather than from technical efficiency. Patients had lower use while in the HMO, but disenrollees and those who refused enrollment had significantly higher use than FFS participants. In contrast to the effect of HMOs on non-medicaid populations, the medicaid HMO studied provided significantly fewer outpatient services, but the same level of inpatient services as the FFS sector. Overall, voluntary enrollment of medicaid eligibles into the HMO resulted in higher state expenditures for medicaid because of favorable selection.
In a major reform addressing declines in coverage over the prior decade, Congress in 1986 allowed states to expand medicaid eligibility to all pregnant women in poverty. However, at the outset of the expansions uncert...
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In a major reform addressing declines in coverage over the prior decade, Congress in 1986 allowed states to expand medicaid eligibility to all pregnant women in poverty. However, at the outset of the expansions uncertainty existed as to whether eligibility expansion alone would result in greater coverage without aggressive outreach designed to bring more low-income pregnant women into the program. Using interrupted time series methods, the analyses presented in this paper show a significant increase in medicaid financing of deliveries in two states that expanded eligibility and also made efforts to simplify application procedures and publicize the expansions. Policy implications of the findings are discussed.
Studies on the impact of restricted medicaid formularies were reviewed to assess whether other drugs on the formulary were substituted for restricted drugs, the cost of the substitutes, whether the substitutes were th...
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The Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) supplies $20.4 billion over 5 years and nearly $50 billion over 10 years to extend health insurance to uninsured children with family incomes up to 200 percent of poverty. Thi...
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The Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) supplies $20.4 billion over 5 years and nearly $50 billion over 10 years to extend health insurance to uninsured children with family incomes up to 200 percent of poverty. This article analyzes the March 1997 Current Population Survey estimating the number of children likely to be eligible for CHIP or currently eligible for medicaid. Of the 8.6 million parents of uninsured children,four out of five were uninsured at the time of the survey. Expanding coverage to parents as well as children could make program participation more attractive and simplify the enrollment process. If 75 percent of uninsured parents of CHIP eligible children participated, 1.7 million parents could be insured, costing federal and state governments 3.4 billion. Another 3.4 million parents would be insured by expanding medicaid to cover uninsured parents of Medical-eligible children.
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