Adverse Selection in Medicaid: Evidence from Discontinuous Program Rules

Published: May 1, 2021
Abstract
Recent expansions of Medicaid eligibility have come with increased experimentation with enrollee cost-sharing. In this paper, we exploit a discontinuous premium increase at the federal poverty level in Michigan’s Medicaid expansion program to test low-income individuals’ sensitivity to premiums using linked enrollment and claims data. At the cutoff, average premiums increase by $3.15 and the probability of disenrollment increases by 2.3...
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Title
Adverse Selection in Medicaid: Evidence from Discontinuous Program Rules
Published Date
May 1, 2021
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