Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF MEDICAID DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS ON MEDICAID EXPENDITURES Keith Kranker Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Mark Duggan Department of Economics Disease Management (DM) programs for Medicaid patients with chronic diseases have become very popular, with a majority of states having introduced some type of DM program in the last decade. These p...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: I13 D82 H51 Keywords: Universal basic health insurance Voluntary supplementary insurance Public vs. private insurance Adverse selection Moral hazard Cost effectiveness This paper introduces a tractable model of health insurance with both moral hazard and adverse selection. We show that government sponsored universal basic insurance should cover treatmen...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but it also is highly preventable. The prevention rate mainly depends on the patients' readiness to follow recommendations and the state's capacity to support patients. Our study aims to show that proper primary care can decrease the CVD-related morbidity rate and increase the economic efficiency of ...

Medicare’s Prospective Payment System (PPS) reform in 1983 tied hospital payments to the national average cost of each medical technology with the expectation of reducing health care costs. I show that an unintended consequence of PPS was generating financial incentives for hospitals to expand treatments that had average costs greater than marginal costs due to sizable fixed investments – i.e.,...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on adult outcomes using U.S. administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by the 1970 Clean Air Act to analyze the difference in outcomes between cohorts born in counties before and after large improvements in air pollution relative to those same cohorts born in counties that had no improve...

Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilizing panel data analysis, namely system-GMM estimators, to obtain unbia...

It has been well-established that prospective payment increases upcoding among patients covered by Medicare. This paper develops a model of hospital diagnosing behavior when the hospital is faced with two groups of patients (those covered by traditional insurance and those in a prospective payment system) and two types of disease (higher reimbursing and lower reimbursing). The results suggests ...