Impacts of innovation in dental care delivery and payment in Medicaid managed care for children and adolescents

Autor: Douglas A. Conrad, Peter Milgrom, Yuxian Du, Joana Cunha-Cruz, Sharity Ludwig, R. Mike Shirtcliff
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: BMC Health Services Research, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1472-6963
01782401
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06549-3
Popis: Abstract Background We evaluated a 14-county quality improvement program of care delivery and payment of a dental care organization for child and adolescent managed care Medicaid beneficiaries after 2 years of implementation. Methods Counties were randomly assigned to either the intervention (PREDICT) or control group. Using Medicaid administrative data, difference-in-difference regression models were used to estimate PREDICT intervention effects (formally, “average marginal effects”) on dental care utilization and costs to Medicaid, controlling for patient and county characteristics. Results Average marginal effects of PREDICT on expected use and expected cost of services per patient (child or adolescent) per quarter were small and insignificant for most service categories. There were statistically significant effects of PREDICT (p
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