Findings from Columbia University Yields New Data on Managed Care (Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers In the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment): Managed Care

2023 MAY 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting from New York City, New York, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “We study the impact of expanded adult Medicaid eligibility on the enrollment of already-eligible children. We analyze the 2008 Oregon Medicaid lottery, in which some low-income uninsured adults were randomly selected to be allowed to apply for Medicaid.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Columbia University, “Children in these households were eligible for Medicaid irrespective of the lottery outcome. We estimate statistically significant but transitory impacts of adult lottery selection on child Medicaid enrollment: at three months after the lottery, for every nine adults who enrolled in Medicaid due to winning the lottery, one additional child also enrolled.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our results shed light on the existence, magnitude, and nature of so-called ‘woodwork effects..”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers In the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022;14(3):273-295. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy can be contacted at: Amer Economic Assoc, 2014 Broadway, Ste 305, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Adam Sacarny, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York, NY 10027, United States. Additional authors for this research include Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20200172. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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