Effects of Early Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans on Health Expenditure.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effects of the penetration of dual-eligible special needs plans (D-SNPs) on health care spending.

Data sources/study setting

Secondary state-level panel data from Medicare-Medicaid Linked Enrollee Analytic Data Source (MMLEADS) public use file and Special Needs Plan Comprehensive Reports, Area Health Resource Files, and Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report between 2007 and 2011.

Study design

A difference-in-difference strategy that adjusts for dual-eligibles' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, state health resources, beneficiaries' health risk factors, Medicare/Medicaid enrollment, and state- and year-fixed effects.

Data collection/extraction methods

Data from MMLEADS were summarized from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051974 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature