The Digest | NBER
Upcoding: Evidence from Medicare on Risk Adjustment Article. As private insurance plans increased market penetration, risk ...
The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing | NBER
Thanks to a quirk in Medicares drug coverage, 65-year-olds are as-if-randomly assigned a budget-a spending limit on drugs, ...
Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition: The Case of...
Exploiting a plausibly exogenous shock to Medicare reimbursement for SNFs, we find that a 1 percent increase in a patients ... We find no evidence that increased self-referrals improve patient outcomes or change post-discharge Medicare spending. ...
The Digest | NBER
Low-income elderly and disabled individuals are eligible for health insurance through both Medicare, which is federally funded ... An Affordable Care Act related increase in reimbursements for providers serving low-income Medicare beneficiaries increased ...
Featured Researcher: Marika Cabral | NBER
... and much of her recent work focuses on Medicare and workers compensation insurance. Her work has addressed the incidence of ...
Liquidity and Healthcare Consumption | NBER
The rich Medicare claims data will further allow us to assess the extent to which effects are driven by high-value versus low- ... To do so, we will study how the probability of filling a prescription is affected by the arrival of a Medicare beneficiarys ... to compare how drug fills change around the date that Medicare beneficiaries receive their Social Security checks. For a ...
Increased Medicaid Reimbursement Rates Expand Access to Care | NBER
... in 2013 by a federal mandate that required Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain primary care services to match Medicare ...
The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program: Evidence from the Great Recession | NBER
97.365 billion including both SSDI and Medicare benefits. ...
The Bulletin on Aging & Health | NBER
... is the most profound change to health policy in the United States since the introduction of Medicare and Medicare in 1965. The ...
Health Care Program Meeting - MyNBER
Can Competitive Bidding Work in Health Care? Evidence from Medicare Durable Medical Equipment. Discussant:. Ashley T. Swanson, ... Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits Discussant:. Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER ... Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage Discussant:. Benjamin R. Handel, University of ...
Urgent Care Centers Raise Medicare Costs | NBER
The first panel of the figure shows that total Medicare spending per enrollee begins trending upward when a UCC enters a ... Instead, the researchers find that UCC entry increases Medicare costs by much more than the average per-beneficiary UCC costs. ... By the sixth year after entry, the increase in annual Medicare spending is $269 per beneficiary (a 2 percent increase relative ... Using a 20 percent random sample of elderly, fee-for-service Medicare enrollees between 2006 and 2016, the researchers compare ...
The Effect of Medicare on Medical Expenditures, Mortality, and Spending Risk | NBER
Medicare currently covers nearly 42 million beneficiaries, or one in seven U.S. citizens. Medicare expenditures were $295 ... The Effect of Medicare on Medical Expenditures, Mortality, and Spending Risk Share Twitter LinkedIn Email ... When Medicare was signed in to law, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, "No longer will older Americans be denied the healing ... The introduction of Medicare in 1965, providing nearly universal health insurance coverage for the elderly, was the largest ...
Meetings: Winter, 2017 | NBER
The Impact of Contracting Out on Medicare and Medicaid * Conferences: Winter, 2017 ...