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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medicaid policy"”.
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Long-term care and the elderly
… uninsured financial risks facing the elderly. Medicaid provides incomplete insurance against these costs: unlimited nursing home benefits with a deductible equal to the savings and income above the means-testing limits. While private insurance is available, fewer than 10 percent of the elderly …
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Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach
… health insurance coverage through Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare provides essentially universal insurance coverage for adults over 65, and, although enrollment is required, there is no application to determine eligibility. Alternately, Medicaid is a means-tested program with a stringent …
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Essays in Health Economics
… first chapter looks at the effect of changes in Medicaid policy on legal immigrant parents in the United States. During the 1990s and early 2000s many states expanded Medicaid eligibility for parents particularly after the 1996 welfare reform. At the same time, welfare reform also put in place …
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Enhancing healthcare decisions using big data
… second chapter generates synthetic indexes of Medicaid dental benefit generosity for low-income older adults to improve their dental access. The third chapter evaluates the performance of the Diagnosis Cost Group(DCG) clustering algorithm combined with mixed payment formulas, outliers, and …
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Examining the state policies and external organizational ties that affect women’s access to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment services
… drug use lie at the focus on great public and policy concerns due to the ways it has been construed in health policy discourse. There is a moral connotation regarding the criminalization of substance use during pregnancy. Mothers’ pathways to SUD treatment are complex, at turn they may be …