Trends In State Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Rules, And Benefits

Ashley M Fox; Wenhui Feng; Jennifer Zeitlin; Elizabeth A Howell

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01350

Trends In State Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Rules, And Benefits

Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Nov;39(11):1909-1916. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01350.

Authors

Ashley M Fox¹, Wenhui Feng², Jennifer Zeitlin³, Elizabeth A Howell⁴

Affiliations

¹ Ashley M. Fox (afox3@albany.edu) is an assistant professor of public administration and policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York, in Albany, New York.
² Wenhui Feng is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Jennifer Zeitlin is a senior research scientist in the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (Epopé), Paris Descartes University, in Paris, France.
⁴ Elizabeth A. Howell is a professor at the Blavatnik Family Women's Health Research Institute, Departments of Population Health Science and Policy and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, New York.

PMID: 33136505
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01350

Abstract

Recent literature has focused on the impact of the differential adoption by states of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. However, additional Medicaid policy dimensions exist where state-level trends in coverage have varied, including eligibility, benefits, and administrative burden, both before and after implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Keywords: Access to care; Administrative burden; Affordable Care Act; Children's Health; Children's Health Insurance Program; Eligibility; Federalism; Immigrants; Medicaid; Medicaid programs; Public Health; State Medicaid; health policy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Eligibility Determination
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Insurance Coverage
Medicaid*
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act*
United States