Health Plan Disenrollment in a Choice-Based Medicaid Managed Care Program

Consumer decisions to switch health plans have implications for quality of care and risk selection. We examine factors related to time to disenrollment in a Medicaid managed care program where beneficiaries face a menu of plans and can change plans every month. Several findings have direct policy re...

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Main Authors: Thomas C. Buchmueller (Author), Todd Gilmer (Author), Katherine Harris (Author)
Format: Book
Published: SAGE Publishing, 2004-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:Consumer decisions to switch health plans have implications for quality of care and risk selection. We examine factors related to time to disenrollment in a Medicaid managed care program where beneficiaries face a menu of plans and can change plans every month. Several findings have direct policy relevance. Families and individuals who make active choices upon entering the program are at substantially lower risk of disenrollment than those who are auto-assigned. Interactions between enrollee ethnicity and provider language proficiency suggest that enrollee satisfaction depends on the cultural competence of providers. Differential disenrollment by risk status results in adverse retention for certain types of plans.
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10.5034/inquiryjrnl_41.4.447