INFORMATION GAPS AND HEALTH INSURANCE ENROLLMENT: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Navigator Programs [0.03%]
信息缺口与健康保险登记：来自美国平价医疗法案导航员项目的现象分析
Rebecca Myerson,Honglin Li
Rebecca Myerson
We studied the impact of Affordable Care Act navigator programs on health insurance coverage, using the 80 percent cut in program funding under the Trump administration as a natural experiment. Our study design exploited county-level differ...
Michael R Betz,Lauren E Jones
Michael R Betz
Widespread opioid misuse suggests a potential for increased fatal car crashes. However, opioid use may not necessarily lead to additional crashes if drivers respond to opioid prevalence by substituting away from more inebriating intoxicants...
Improving the Performance of Risk Adjustment Systems: Constrained Regressions, Reinsurance, and Variable Selection [0.03%]
改进风险调整系统的表现：约束回归，再保险和变量选择
Thomas G McGuire,Anna L Zink,Sherri Rose
Thomas G McGuire
Modifications of risk-adjustment systems used to pay health plans in individual health insurance markets typically seek to reduce selection incentives at the individual and group levels by adding variables to the payment formula. Adding var...
David Powell,Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
David Powell
Recent evidence suggests that the short-term transition of the opioid crisis from prescription opioids to heroin can be attributed to the reformulation of OxyContin, which substantially reduced access to abusable prescription opioids. In th...
Laurence C Baker,M Kate Bundorf,Daniel P Kessler
Laurence C Baker
In health care, vertical integration - common ownership of producers of complementary services - may have both pro- and anti-competitive effects. We use data on 40 million commercially-insured individuals from the Health Care Cost Institute...
THE EFFECT OF MEDICAID EXPANSIONS IN THE LATE 1980S AND EARLY 1990S ON THE LABOR SUPPLY OF PREGNANT WOMEN [0.03%]
关于 Medicaid 扩张对孕妇劳动参与度的影响：1980s 晚期及 1990s 初期的案例
Dhaval M Dave,Sandra L Decker,Robert Kaestner et al.
Dhaval M Dave et al.
A substantial body of research has found that expansions in Medicaid eligibility increased enrollment in Medicaid, reduced the rate of uninsured, and reduced the rate of private health insurance coverage (i.e., crowd out). Notably, there ha...
Anna Chorniy,Janet Currie,Lyudmyla Sonchak
Anna Chorniy
A large body of literature documents positive effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes, and separately connects health at birth and future outcomes. But little research i...
Marcelo Coca Perraillon,R Tamara Konetzka,Daifeng He et al.
Marcelo Coca Perraillon et al.
Health care report cards are intended to address information asymmetries and enable consumers to choose providers of better quality. However, the form of the information may matter to consumers. Nursing Home Compare, a website that publishe...
Joseph P Newhouse,Mary Beth Landrum,Mary Price et al.
Joseph P Newhouse et al.
We ascertain the degree of service-level selection in Medicare Advantage (MA) using individual level data on the 100 most frequent HCC's or combination of HCC's from two national insurers in 2012-2013. We find differences in the distributio...
R Tamara Konetzka,Karen B Lasater,Edward C Norton et al.
R Tamara Konetzka et al.
The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research suggests that the nursing supply adjusts to macroeconomic conditions. However, prior work has failed to consider the effect o...