The association between managed care enrollments and potentially preventable hospitalization among adult Medicaid recipients in Florida

BMC Health Services Research

Keon-Hyung Lee¹  Jungwon Park¹ 

[1] Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, 659 Bellamy Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-2250, USA

关键词: Ambulatory care sensitive conditions;    Spillover effect;    Competition;    Rurality;    Medicaid managed care;    Preventable hospitalization;   

Others  :  1130827
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6963-14-247

 received in 2014-01-23, accepted in 2014-05-29,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The intent of adopting managed care plans is to improve access to health care services while containing costs. To date, there have been a number of studies that examine the relationship between managed care and access to health care. However, the results from previous studies have been inconsistent. Specifically, previous studies did not demonstrate a clear benefit of Medicaid managed care. In this study we have examine whether Medicaid managed care is associated with the probabilities of preventable hospitalizations. This study also analyzes the spillover effect of Medicaid managed care into Medicaid patients in traditional FFS plans and the interaction effects of other patient- and county-level variables on preventable hospitalizations.

Methods

The study included 254,321 Medicaid patients who were admitted to short-term general hospital in the 67 counties in Florida. Using 2008 hospital inpatient discharge data for working-age adult Medicaid enrollees (18-64 years) in Florida, we conduct multivariate logistic regression analyses to identify possible factors associated with preventable hospitalizations. The first model includes patient- and county-level variables. Then, we add interaction terms between Medicaid HMO and other variables such as race, rurality, market-level factors, and resource for primary care.

Results

The results show that Medicaid HMO patients are more likely to be hospitalized for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) (OR = 1.30; CI = 1.21, 1.40). We also find that market structure (i.e., competition) is significantly associated with preventable hospitalizations. However, our study does not support that there are spillover effects of Medicaid managed care on preventable hospitalizations for other Medicaid recipients. We find that interactions between Medicaid managed care and race, rurality and market structure are significant.

Conclusions

The results of our study show that the Medicaid managed care program in Florida was associated with an increase in potentially preventable hospitalizations for Medicaid enrollees. The results suggest that lower capitation rate has been associated with a greater likelihood of preventable hospitalizations for Medicaid managed care patients. Our findings also indicate that increased competition in the Medicaid managed care market has no clear benefit in Medicaid managed care patients.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Park and Lee; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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