TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Schnell, Molly
AU  - 2024
AU  - Alexander, Diane
TI  - The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health
SN  - 1945-7782
PB  - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
KW  -  Actuarial Studies, National Government Expenditures and Health, Analysis of Health Care Markets, Health Insurance, Public and Private, Health: Government Policy
KW  -  Insurance
KW  -  Insurance Companies
KW  -  Occupational Licensing
KW  -  Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs, Professional Labor Markets
KW  - Regulation
N2  - We examine how supply-side health insurance generosity affects patient access, use, and health. Exploiting large, exogenous changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians, we find that increasing payments for new patient office visits reduces reports of providers turning away beneficiaries: closing the gap in payments between Medicaid and private insurers would reduce more than half of disparities in access among adults and would eliminate such disparities among children. We further find that higher physician reimbursement leads to more office visits, better self-reported health, and reduced school absenteeism among the program's beneficiaries
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210227
ER  -