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Ramzi Abujamra
Ramzi Abujamra
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Medicaid Expansion and the use of Account-based Health Plans
Author(s): David Randall, Stephen T Parente and Ramzi AbujamraDavid Randall, Stephen T Parente and Ramzi Abujamra
Objectives: U.S. Medicaid expansion has added over 11 Million new enrollees since 2010 and U.S. states are attempting to integrate the increased population as well as addressing fiscal constraints. Account based plans (such as Health Savings Accounts) have been successfully used to control utilization while providing enrollee flexibility. We suggest that a portion of the 55 million Medicaid beneficiary population can be enrolled in account based plans and assist state and federal Health Insurance Exchanges with the ‘churn’ that occurs between the two systems while controlling costs. Methods: We use publicly available per capita Medicaid spending in each state to estimate the population that could be enrolled in an account based plan and apply factors from previous private ma.. View More»
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4273.1000134