Objective To examine the qualitative literature on low‐income women's perspectives on the
barriers to high‐quality prenatal and postpartum care. Data Sources and Study Setting We …

States have increasingly outsourced the provision of Medicaid services to private managed
care plans. To ensure that plans maintain access to care, many states set network adequacy …

Privatization has been shown to increase the growth and profitability of government-owned
firms. However, the effects on consumers have been understudied. We study potential trade …

Methods| This serial cross-sectional study obtained data from the 2014 to 2022 Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS introduced an optional gender …

We study insurance and portfolio decisions, two opposite risk retention tradeoffs. Using
household level data, we identify the first joint determinants (eg subjective expectations, risk …

This article examines the trade-offs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing
unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and …

High administrative costs in US health care have provoked concern among policymakers
over potential waste, but many of these costs are generated by managed care policies that …

Importance Black and Hispanic or Latina women are more likely than White women to
receive a diagnosis of and to die of cervical cancer. Health insurance coverage is …

Medicaid is characterized by low rates of provider participation, often attributed to
reimbursement rates below those of commercial insurance or Medicare. Understanding the …

We study hassle costs versus information provision in explaining how prescription drug
monitoring programs (PDMPs) decrease opioid prescribing. PDMPs aim to reduce opioid …