The health and medical care of children under Title 19 (Medicaid).

Preventive health care for Medicaid children

In this article, we measure the extent to which California Medicaid children in 1981 received preventive care services through either the regular or the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment component of Medicaid. On average, 62 percent of children up to 15 years of age who were continuously enrolled for that year had no preventive care visits, with the percentage increasing wi...

Access to Care for Disabled Children Under Medicaid

This article examines differences in access and use of care among children on Medicaid with physical disabilities, mental illness, and mental retardation/development disabilities (MR/DD) in New York City (NYC). We use 1999 and 2000 survey data obtained from the parents of a random sample of disabled children on Medicaid to conduct both descriptive and multivariate analyses. We find that the Med...

Chapter Title: the Impact of Medicare and Medicaid on Access to Medical Care

Medicaid and the Health of Children

The Medicaid program has evolved and expanded since its inception in 1965, providing health insurance coverage for ever-increasing numbers of children living in poverty. During the first 35 years of Medicaid, the program has expanded coverage to include preventive services for children, expanded eligibility criteria to include uninsured children not receiving welfare. The Medicaid program has e...

Accessibility and effectiveness of care under Medicaid

We suggest a framework for assessing the accessibility, appropriateness, and outcomes of care to Medicaid recipients and review studies in these areas. Evidence is limited, and variation among States and the paucity of national data pose further problems. There is evidence that Medicaid recipients receive less medically necessary care (e.g., prenatal care) than the insured, but evidence on the ...