Reports from Princeton University Describe Recent Advances in Managed Care (Administrative Burdens and Child Medicaid and Chip Enrollments): Managed Care

2024 APR 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news reporting out of Princeton, New Jersey, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Following decades of increasing child access to public health insurance, pre-pandemic enrollments fell in many states after 2016 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment of the role of administrative burdens in driving this drop in child health insurance coverage.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Princeton University, “In addition, we identify the demographic groups of children who were most affected. We show that regulations that increased administrative burdens placed on families reduced public health insurance coverage by a mean of 5.9 percent within six months following the implementation of these changes. Declines were largest for Hispanic children, children with non-citizen parents, and children whose parents reported that they did not speak English well.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These reductions were separate from and in addition to enrollment declines among Hispanic children following the announcement of a new public charge rule in September 2018.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Administrative Burdens and Child Medicaid and Chip Enrollments. American Journal of Health Economics, 2024. American Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Univ Chicago Press, 1427 E 60TH St, Chicago, IL 60637-2954, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Janet Currie, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States. Additional authors for this research include Iris Arbogast and Anna Chorniy.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1086/728170. 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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