Does health status explain higher Medicare costs of Medicaid enrollees?

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 39-54

  Liu, Korbin ^a   Long, Sharon K ^a   Aragon, Cynthia ^b  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; REVIEW;

EID: 0032446952     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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