- Title
- Effect of low-income elderly insurance copayment subsidies.
- First Author
- Parente, Stephen T
- Date of Pub
- 1998 Winter
- Pages
- 19-37
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- Evans, William N
- Abstract
- The authors use a two-part model of demand to model the impact of qualified Medicare beneficiary (QMB) enrollment on medical care use. Assuming QMB enrollment to be exogenous, they find Medicare Part B utilization to be 12 percent higher and Part B expenditures 44 percent greater among QMBs than among eligible non-enrollees. There is no difference between these two groups in overall Part A expenditures. Modeling the possibility that QMB enrollment is endogenous, the authors find qualitatively similar results, but the estimates are not precisely estimated.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Economics : Eligibility Determination/economics : Human : Medicaid : Medicare Part A/economics/statistics & numerical data/utilization : Medicare Part B/economics/statistics & numerical data/utilization : Models, Econometric : Poverty : Social Security : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB2000-102915
