ArticleHealth services research2024
Insurance coverage during transitions: Evidence from Medicaid automatic enrollment for children receiving supplemental security income.
Article in Health services research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Changes in Emergency Department Payer Mix Among Children Following Medicaid Unwinding in Texas.Health services research · 2026Article
- Insurance coverage during transitions: Evidence from Medicaid automatic enrollment for children receiving supplemental security income.Health services research · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo analyze relationships between Medicaid automatic enrollment for child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients and health insurance coverage during transitions. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY
settingMedical Expenditure Panel Study, 2000-2020 and National Survey for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2001-2010. STUDY
designLeveraging variation in SSI-Medicaid automatic enrollment status across regions and over time, we estimate a regression model to quantify associations between automatic enrollment and insurance coverage. We validate our findings in the NS-CSHCN. DATA COLLECTION: Our sample includes children receiving SSI for a disability. We also analyze a subsample of children newly enrolled in SSI. PRINCIPAL
findingsAutomatic enrollment is associated with a statistically significant increase in insurance coverage. Expanding automatic enrollment to all states is associated with increases in Medicaid enrollment of 3% (CI 0.9%-6.7%) among all SSI children and 7% (CI 1.1%-13.9%) among children newly enrolled in SSI. We find similar decreases in uninsurance. Analysis in the NS-CSHCN replicates these findings.
conclusionsMedicaid automatic enrollment policies are associated with increased insurance coverage for SSI children, particularly those transitioning into the program. Medicaid policy defaults could play an important role in reducing administrative burdens to improve children's coverage and access to care.
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