...Stephen M. Davidson; Jerry Cromwell; Rachel Schurman Medicaid expenditures, which had reached more than $32 billion by 1981, have grown substantially throughout the program's history. As a result, the conventional wisdom is that Medicaid expenditures represent a significant public-policy problem...

...Michael K. Gusmano Books Review Laura Katz Olson. The Politics of Medicaid. New York: Columbia Uni­ versity Press, 2010. 416 pp. $32.50 cloth. Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly...

...Adam S. Wilk; Leigh C. Evans; David K. Jones Abstract Six states that have rejected the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion nonetheless extended the primary care “fee bump,” by which the federal government increased Medicaid fees for primary care services up to 100...

...Etienne E. Pracht The objective of this article is to understand the political motivations underlying Medicaid managed care reforms by examining the determinants of enrollment of beneficiaries in managed care plans in the fifty states. To highlight the role of the model variables, including...

...Stephen M. Davidson Most Americans gain entry into the medical care system through office-based primary care physicians. The Medicaid program was created in 1965 in part to increase the access of low-income people to medical services in that mainstream. But, over the years, office-based physicians...

...Teresa A. Coughlin; Leighton Ku; John Holahan; David Heslam; Colin Winterbottom In recent years the growth of Medicaid spending has been a serious state budgetary problem. Between 1988 and 1992, state Medicaid expenditures increased at an average annual rate of 21 percent. Even when accounting...

... Paul Jesilow, Henry 1. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis. Rwscdption for profit: How Doctorr Defraud Medicaid. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. 218 pp. $25.00 cloth. Could it be that doctors deliberately and systematically bilk Medicaid for billions of dollars each year in fraudulent...

...William J. Moore; Karen Gutermuth; Etienne E. Pracht Aggregate pooled cross-sectional and time-series annual state data for 1985 to 1992 were used to estimate the systemwide effects of retrospective drug utilization review programs (Retro-DUR) on Medicaid drug and nondrug outcomes. The results...

... Review Essay 751 Review Essay Making Sense of Medicaid Reform Mark R. Daniels, ed. Medicaid Reform and the American States: Case Studies of Managed Care. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1998. 320 pp. $49.95...

...Karl Kronebusch From 1984 to 1990, Congress enacted a series of mandates that expanded Medicaid eligibility for low-income children by gradually delinking Medicaid eligibility from welfare eligibility. The 1996 national welfare reform law nominally completed the delinking process when the statutory...

...Christopher J. Conover; Peter J. Rankin; Frank A. Sloan A comparative study was conducted in two neighboring states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to determine whether Medicaid managed care (implemented in Tennessee as TennCare) affected prenatal care, care patterns at labor-delivery, and birth...

...Robert P. Stoker Anne-Marie Foltz, An Ounce of Prevention: Child Health Politics Under Medicaid (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982), 254 pp., $27.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 342 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

...Bruce Stuart; Edward Reutzel; Thomas Reutzel This paper demonstrates the application of a mathematical programming model to a longstanding policy issue in the Medicaid reform debate: the redistribution of program funds necessary to achieve equity in eligibility and benefit coverage across states...

...Frank J. Thompson The Medicaid Platform: Can the Termites Be Kept at Bay? Frank J. Thompson Rutgers University – Newark and New Brunswick Born in 1965, Medicaid has experienced a reversal...