Downward Trends in Medicaid Costs

Medicaid Highlights: Trends in Medicaid Prescribed Drug Expenditures and Utilization

The findings show that with the development of a multitude of safe and effective drugs during the later part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, drugs are, as never before, a true mainstay of medical treatment. CMS continues to monitor drug utilization and expenditures in all of its programs in order to ensure that care is rendered in a cost-effective manner that is benef...

The Employment Costs of Downward Nominal-Wage Rigidity

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Healthcare Utilization and Costs of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Medicaid

Objective. Healthcare utilization and costs associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a US Medicaid population were examined. Methods. Patients ≥ 18 years old with SLE diagnosis (ICD-9-CM 710.0x) were extracted from a large Medicaid database 2002-2009. Index date was date of the first SLE diagnosis. Patients with and without SLE were matched. All patients had a variable length of fo...

Containing Medicaid costs in an era of growing physician Supply

In this analysis, Medicaid cost containment is viewed within the theoretical framework of a price discrimination model. The value of viewing supply decisions made by physicians in terms of the conventional economic laws of supply and demand is demonstrated. Physicians are seen to respond to prices in a predictable way. As private prices increase, physicians are less willing to participate in Me...

Medication costs in Wisconsin Medicaid: Waste not, want not?