Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing

Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing

Executive Summary

This brief reviews the literature on the impact of premiums and cost sharing on enrollment, service utilization, and health status. It focuses particularly on how the research consensus fits with the flexibility Medicaid law gives states to establish premiums and cost sharing. It also highlights changes brought about by new cost sharing regulations and discusses the legal and policy ramifications of proposals by some states to charge Medicaid beneficiaries even higher cost sharing and premiums.

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