Medicaid primary care physician fees and the use of preventive services among Medicaid enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increases Medicaid physician fees for preventive care up to Medicare rates for 2013 and 2014. The purpose of this paper was to model the relationship between Medicaid preventive care payment rates and the use of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)-recommended preventive care use among Medicaid enrollees.

Data sources/study session

We used data from the 2003 and 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a national probability sample of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population, linked to Kaiser state Medicaid benefits data, including the state Medicaid-to-Medicare physician fee ratio in 2003 and 2008.

Study design

Probit models were used to estimate the probability that eligible indivi

SUBMITTER: Atherly A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4111777 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature