Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization / Janet Currie, John Fahr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currie, Janet.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Fahr, John.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8812.

NBER working paper series no. w8812

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Medicaid Managed Care

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.

Summary:

We use data from the National Health Interview Surveys to measure the effects of the growth of Medicaid managed care on children. We examine both the probability that individual children were Medicaid-covered and their utilization of care. We find that managed care penetration has significant effects on the composition of the Medicaid caseload. Poor white and Hispanic children are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid where Medicaid managed care organizations are more prevalent, whereas black children are less likely to be enrolled. Also, toddlers are less likely to be enrolled than school age children. These lower enrollment rates are linked to increases in the numbers of black children and toddlers who go without any doctor visits in a year. Our results are consistent with cream-skimming by Medicaid managed care organizations along the lines of race and age.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2002.