OBJECTIVES The challenges entailed in dental Medicaid programs are well documented. To increase our understanding of Medicaid participation, we surveyed Florida dentists to determine the demographic and practice characteristics of Medicaid-participating dentists. METHODS Our target population was practicing Florida dentists who treat children, including those who do not currently accept Medic...

Introduction: An Overview of the Medicaid Program T he Medicaid program plays a key role in ensuring access to medical and long-term care services for millions of Americans. Medicaid, a jointly funded federal–state health care program for low-income individuals, covered more than 47 million people in 2002—one of every seven Americans. 2, 3 With financial assistance from the federal government, ...

With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI demand depends in part on the availability of Medicaid, since it is considered a substitute for LTCI. This...

This article examines the effect of parents' Medicaid status on the use of preventive health services by young children. Using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we analyzed a logit model for receipt of any well-child visits (WCVs) that compared three groups of low-income children. The three groups, defined by the joint insurance status of children and their parents, in...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to provide tobacco-cessation services without cost-sharing for pregnant traditional Medicaid-beneficiaries effective October 2010. It is unknown the extent to which obstetricians-gynecologists are aware of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit. We sought to examine the awareness of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit in a national sample of obst...

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) are population-based surveys that have each been linked to administrative data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) files. These linked data were used to examine, among children under age 18 years, respondent-level concordance be...

More than one-third of all births in the United States are financed by Medicaid. In 2001, more than 50% of all Medicaid beneficiaries were enrolled in a managed care plan, and participation by these plans in Medicaid is expected to grow. The care of pregnant women and their infants can be significantly affected by managed care practice. However, equally important are the state regulations that ...

The links between Medicaid and welfare exits are examined using longitudinal Medicaid program data. Few people who leave welfare get any sort of ongoing or transitional Medicaid protection. Moreover, it appears that many who are eligible for transitional benefits are not getting them. Finally, people with high expected medical costs appear to be less likely to leave welfare. The loss of Medicai...

In this article, the risk arrangements in Medicaid programs that put physicians at risk are summarized. These programs--partial capitation and health insuring organizations--pay physicians a capitation amount to cover some or all physician services. Physicians also receive part of the savings from reduced hospitalization. Most of these programs have successfully lowered Medicaid costs. They cou...