Recent Health Care Use and Medicaid Entry of Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of the study

To examine the relationship between Medicaid entry and recent health care use among Medicare beneficiaries.

Design and methods

We identified Medicare beneficiaries without full Medicaid or use of hospital or nursing home services in 2008 (N = 2,163,387). A discrete survival analysis estimated beneficiaries' monthly likelihood of entry into the full Medicaid program between January 2009 and June 2010.

Results

During the 18-month study period, Medicaid entry occurred for 1.1% and 3.7% of beneficiaries who aged into Medicare or originally qualified for Medicare due to disability, respectively. Among beneficiaries who aged into Medicare, 49% of new Medicaid participants had no use of inpatient, skilled nursing facility, or nursing home services during

SUBMITTER: Keohane LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881675 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature