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Title: Managed Care Mandates and Birth Outcomes: Who Benefits and Does the Model Matter

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: The 2010 health reform seeks to expand health coverage to 30 million people and many will enroll in managed care plans. We exploit Medicaid manage care mandates in California to examine the effect of managed care on prenatal care access and birth and pregnancy outcomes. There is no improvement for the extremely disadvantaged, but access and birth outcomes improves for the moderately disadvantages. The results suggest that a managed care option may be key for improving access to prenatal care and birth outcomes as health care is expanded to the near poor under the health care reform.

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Authors: Barham, Tania; Gertler, Paul; Raube, Kristiana

Publisher: University of Colorado

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health

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