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Article: Children's Preventive Care Use Under Two Mature Medicaid Managed Care Plans in California.
- Article from:
- Health Care Financing Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
The Santa Barbara Health Initiative (SBHI) and the Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM) are two of the longest-running 1915(b) waiver programs in the United States; the SBHI was initiated in 1982 and the HPSM in 1987. As such, they provide a unique opportunity to investigate children, s preventive care use in mature Medicaid managed care (MMC) programs.
Most studies of MMC have focused on cross-sectional program effects from newly enrolled Medicaid participants or have explored pre/post program effects in early implementation years. In addition, previous studies could not always reliably gauge the impact of MMC because enrolled populations ...