The association between managed care enrollments and potentially preventable hospitalization among adult Medicaid recipients in Florida

The association between managed care enrollments and potentially preventable hospitalization among adult Medicaid recipients in Florida

BMC Health Services Research, June 2014

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Jungwon Park, Keon-Hyung Lee

The intent of adopting managed care plans is to improve access to health care services while containing costs. To date, there have been a number of studies that examine the relationship between managed care and access to health care. However, the results from previous studies have been inconsistent. Specifically, previous studies did not demonstrate a clear benefit of Medicaid managed care. In this study we have examine whether Medicaid managed care is associated with the probabilities of preventable hospitalizations. This study also analyzes the spillover effect of Medicaid managed care into Medicaid patients in traditional FFS plans and the interaction effects of other patient- and county-level variables on preventable hospitalizations.