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The impact of Medicaid on physician use by low-income children

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  • Rosenbach, M.L.

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This study evaluated the determinants of physician use by low-income children, with an emphasis on the effect of Medicaid. Data are from the 1980 National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey. Regression analysis revealed that Medicaid children were more likely than both privately insured and uninsured children to visit an office-based physician. Also, Medicaid children with at least one visit to any setting had a higher number of visits than uninsured children. Such factors as age, health status, number of children in the family, educational status, and income also accounted for differences within the low-income population. The results suggest that access to physicians' services (including office-based physicians) can be increased by expanding Medicaid eligibility to uninsured low-income children and by improving private health insurance benefits among the underinsured.

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  • Rosenbach, M.L., 1989. "The impact of Medicaid on physician use by low-income children," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 79(9), pages 1220-1226.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1989:79:9:1220-1226_9
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    1. Alexander, Diane & Currie, Janet, 2017. "Are publicly insured children less likely to be admitted to hospital than the privately insured (and does it matter)?," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 33-51.
    2. Kristine A. Lykens & Paul A. Jargowsky, 2002. "Medicaid matters: children's health and medicaid eligibility expansions," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(2), pages 219-238.
    3. Carol Irvin & Deborah Peikes & Chris Trenholm & Nazmul Khan, "undated". "Discontinuous Coverage in Medicaid and the Implications of 12-Month Continuous Coverage for Children," Mathematica Policy Research Reports ae1dd05eea7d4e549b95e69e9, Mathematica Policy Research.
    4. Genevieve Kenney & Christopher Trenholm & Lisa Dubay & Myoung Kim & Lorenzo Moreno & Jamie Rubenstein & Anna Sommers & Stephen Zuckerman & William Black & Fredric Blavin & Grace Ko, "undated". "The Experiences of SCHIP Enrollees and Disenrollees in 10 States: Findings from the Congressionally Mandated SCHIP Evaluation," Mathematica Policy Research Reports cb55b5872601468486fbd7b43, Mathematica Policy Research.
    5. Thomas C. Buchmueller & Sean Orzol & Lara D. Shore-Sheppard, 2015. "The Effect of Medicaid Payment Rates on Access to Dental Care among Children," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 1(2), pages 194-223, Spring.
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    8. Thomas Buchmueller & John C. Ham & Lara D. Shore-Sheppard, 2015. "The Medicaid Program," NBER Chapters, in: Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume 1, pages 21-136, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. David Zimmer, 2010. "The effect of double coverage on health care utilization of children," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(24), pages 3105-3117.

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