PURPOSE This study was performed to determine factors associated with Louisiana dentists' participation in the Dental Medicaid Program. METHODS Surveys were mailed to all pediatric and general dentists as reported by the Louisiana State Board of Licensing. A second mailing was made to non-respondents. RESULTS Surveys from 956 of 1,926 dentists (50%) were returned. Of 607 general dentists an...

Expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to millions of low-income adults has been controversial, yet little is known about what these Americans themselves think about Medicaid. We conducted a telephone survey in late 2013 of nearly 3,000 low-income adults in three Southern states--Arkansas, Kentucky, and Texas--that have adopted different approaches to the options for expansion. Nea...

Juvenile justice and Medicaid agencies share an interest in serving delinquent youths, many of whom have a relatively poor health status. However, many state and local Medicaid policies result in these youths having no insurance coverage, making access to needed services difficult. A nationally representative survey of state and community juvenile justice and Medicaid agencies was conducted to ...

BACKGROUND From its inception, Medicaid was aimed at providing insurance coverage for low income children, elderly, and disabled. Since this time, children have become a smaller proportion of the US population and Medicaid has expanded to additional eligibility groups. We sought to evaluate relative growth in spending in the Medicaid program between children and adults from 1991-2005. We hypoth...

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ISSUE: The number of Americans insured by Medicaid has climbed to more than 70 million, with an estimated 12 million gaining coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Still, some policymakers have questioned whether Medicaid coverage actually improves access to care, quality of care, or financial protection. GOALS: To compare the experiences of working-age adults who were eit...

Data on Medicaid participation by dentists in North Carolina were obtained from the North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance and through a survey of pediatric dentists. As a group, pediatric dentists were the most active participants in the North Carolina Medicaid program during the 1990-91 state fiscal year and provided a disproportionate share of treatment for Medicaid-eligible children....

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and the more general movement toward accountable care, in which payments are aligned directly with improvements in quality and cost, are intended to increase the incentives and support for higher value in health care. As of mid-2013, there are over 4 million beneficiaries covered by Medicare ACOs, and large private payers continue to enter new ACO arrangeme...

BACKGROUND Type of health insurance is an important mediator of medical outcomes in the United States. Medicaid, a jointly sponsored Federal/State programme, is designed to serve medically needy individuals. How these patients differ from non-Medicaid-enrolled incident dialysis patients and how these differences have changed over time have not been systematically examined. METHODS Using data ...