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The individual and program impacts of eliminating medicaid dental benefits in the oregon health plan

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  • Wallace, N.T.
  • Carlson, M.J.
  • Mosen, D.M.
  • Snyder, J.J.
  • Wright, B.J.

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Objectives. We determined how elimination of dental benefits among adult Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon affected their access to dental care, Medicaid expenditures, and use of medical settings for dental services. Methods. We used a natural experimental design using Medicaid claims data (n=22833) before and after Medicaid dental benefits were eliminated in Oregon in 2003 and survey data for continuously enrolled Oregon Health Plan enrollees (n=718) covering 3 years after benefit cuts. Results. Claims analysis showed that, compared with enrollees who retained dental benefits, those who lost benefits had large increases in dental-related emergency department use (101.7%; P

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  • Wallace, N.T. & Carlson, M.J. & Mosen, D.M. & Snyder, J.J. & Wright, B.J., 2011. "The individual and program impacts of eliminating medicaid dental benefits in the oregon health plan," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(11), pages 2144-2150.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2010.300031_3
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300031
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    1. Marcus Dillender & Karen Mulligan, 2016. "The Effect of Medicare Eligibility on Spousal Insurance Coverage," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(5), pages 591-605, May.
    2. Ando Michihito & Takaku Reo, 2016. "Affordable False Teeth: The Effects of Patient Cost Sharing on Denture Utilization and Subjective Chewing Ability," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 16(3), pages 1387-1438, September.
    3. Decker, Sandra L. & Lipton, Brandy J., 2015. "Do Medicaid benefit expansions have teeth? The effect of Medicaid adult dental coverage on the use of dental services and oral health," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 212-225.
    4. Thomas C. Buchmueller & Sarah Miller & Marko Vujicic, 2014. "How Do Providers Respond to Public Health Insurance Expansions? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits," NBER Working Papers 20053, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Huh, Jason, 2021. "Medicaid and provider supply," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    6. Thomas Buchmueller & Sarah Miller & Marko Vujicic, 2016. "How Do Providers Respond to Changes in Public Health Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 8(4), pages 70-102, November.

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