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Effect of Medicaid Coverage on ED Use — Further Evidence from Oregon’s Experiment

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  • Amy N. Finkelstein, Ph.D.,
  • Sarah L. Taubman, Ph.D.,
  • Heidi L. Allen, Ph.D.,
  • Bill J. Wright, Ph.D.,
  • and Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.

Newly insured people will most likely use more health care across settings, including the emergency department, for at least 2 years, rather than substituting office visits for ED use, according to an analysis of additional data from Oregon's Medicaid lottery.

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Author Affiliations

From the Department of Economics (A.N.F.) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (A.N.F., K.B.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A.N.F.), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (A.N.F., S.L.T., K.B.), Cambridge, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston (K.B.) — all in Massachusetts; Columbia University School of Social Work, New York (H.L.A.); and Providence Health and Services, Portland, OR (B.J.W.).

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