Who Benefits from Medicaid Expansion? Black and White Household Spending Across Medicaid Eligibility StatusThe cost of medical care in the United States has increased dramatically over the past decades (Banthin, Cunningham and Bernard 2008; Cunningham 2015). As a result, an increasing number of ...
At the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government prohibited states from kicking people off Medicaid, even if they were no longer eligible. Before the pandemic, people would regularly lose their Medicaid coverage if they started making too much money to qualify for the program, gained heal...
The Medicaid program is “means-tested.” In order for you to qualify for the healthcare benefits under Medicaid, you have to actually provide evidence that you’re poor or that you’re suffering from the disabilities that you claim. Additionally, in the states that haven’t expanded Medicaid...
Independent variables included measures of affordability, need for services, health insurance benefits, sociodemographics, and supply of managed care plans. Principal Findings. We did not detect strong evidence that beneficiaries in poorer health were more likely than others to switch from Medigap ...
You can check the full list of mandatory and optional benefits. What Medicaid costs Medicaid is often free, but states may charge premiums and have cost-sharing requirements for people who enroll, including copays, coinsurance and deductibles. There’s a limit on out-of-pocket costs, but indiv...
Certification from a doctor that the patient is terminally ill with a life expectancy of six months or less (up to one year in some states) Comfort care, not treatment designed to cure the terminal illness The Medicaid Hospice Benefit Benefits under Medicaid are similar to the Medicare hospice...
Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits This study evaluates how large changes in public health insurance coverage affect provider behavior and patient wait times by analyzing a common type of primary care: dental services. When states expand coverage of dental services to adu... T Buchmueller...
If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year.
Texas provides a variety of welfare benefits, including food stamps, cash assistance and medical coverage. Eligibility typically requires an applicant to meet strict income requirements based on such factors as age, whether children are present in the ho
If you're eligible to receive Social Security benefits when you turn 65, you will automatically be enrolled inMedicare Part A, which covers hospital costs, andMedicare Part B, which covers your visits to the doctor.Enrollment requires no action from you. ...