Coordinated Care Organizations and mortality among low-income infants in Oregon.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs), an accountable care model for Oregon Medicaid enrollees implemented in 2012, on neonatal and infant mortality.

Data sources

Oregon birth certificates linked with death certificates, and Medicaid/CCO enrollment files for years 2008-2016.

Study design

The sample consisted of the pre-CCO birth cohort of 135 753 infants (August 2008-July 2011) and the post-CCO birth cohort of 148 650 infants (August 2012-December 2015). We used a difference-in-differences probit model to estimate the difference in mortality between infants enrolled in Medicaid and infants who were not enrolled. We examined heterogeneous effects of CCOs for preterm and full-term infants and the impact of CCOs over the implem

SUBMITTER: Bui LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863224 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature