Medicaid Applications Spike during Marketplace Open Enrollment: Lessons from Covered California.
The expansion of Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act has insured millions of Americans and reduced costly churn in the program. A large increase in Medicaid applications during Marketplace open enrollment would indicate two potential information gaps: 1) individuals do not know that...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health Care for the Poor & Underserved Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 1155 - 1163 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Aug2022
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