Counterproductive consequences of a conservative ideology: Medicaid expansion and personal responsibility requirements

AM Baker, LM Hunt - American journal of public health, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Medicaid expansion, a key part of the Affordable Care Act, has been opposed by
conservative politicians despite its fiscal and public health benefits. In response, some …

Political science and US health policy in the era of the Affordable Care Act

SF Haeder - Policy Studies Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Few laws have a profound and lasting impact on an entire political system. The Affordable
Care Act (ACA), despite its incremental nature and bipartisan heritage, has been one of …

A look under the hood: regulatory policy making and the Affordable Care Act

SF Haeder, SW Yackee - … of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2020 - read.dukeupress.edu
Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law a decade ago. Partisanship has
limited the number of statutory changes, leaving the law mostly unchanged across the past …

Iowa's Medicaid expansion promoted healthy behaviors but was challenging to implement and attracted few participants

NM Askelson, B Wright, S Bentler, ET Momany… - Health …, 2017 - healthaffairs.org
As part of Iowa's Medicaid expansion, the Healthy Behaviors Program was designed to
provide members with incentives to complete specified healthy activities in return for waiving …

Medicaid expansions and private insurance “crowd‐out”(1999–2019)

J Semprini - Social science quarterly, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Recent Medicaid expansions have rekindled the debate around
private insurance “crowd‐out.” Prior research is limited by short‐time horizons and state …

Completion of requirements in Iowa's Medicaid expansion premium disincentive program, 2014–2015

B Wright, NM Askelson, M Ahrens… - … journal of public …, 2018 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To evaluate rates of member compliance with Iowa's Medicaid expansion
premium disincentive program. Methods. We used 2014 to 2015 Iowa Medicaid data to …

Iowa's Medicaid Healthy Behaviors Program Associated With Reduced Hospital-Based Care But Higher Spending, 2012–17: An examination of whether Iowa's Health …

B Wright, YS Jung, NM Askelson, ET Momany… - Health …, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
Health behavior incentive programs are increasingly common in Medicaid programs
nationwide. Iowa's Healthy Behaviors Program (HBP) requires Medicaid expansion …

[PDF][PDF] Medicaid managed care in Iowa

E Forsgren - 2018 - hks.harvard.edu
Executive Summary On April 1, 2016, the state of Iowa transitioned eighty percent of its
Medicaid population from traditional fee-for-service to comprehensive Medicaid managed …

Communicating a complicated medicaid waiver program to enrollees in iowa: how federally qualified health centers support medicaid members

NM Askelson, PJ Brady, B Wright, G Ryan… - The Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Iowa expanded Medicaid eligibility with a waiver including a personal responsibility
component. Early program evaluation revealed low compliance and awareness among …

Implementation Matters: Lessons From Iowa Medicaid's Healthy Behaviors Program: Iowa's Medicaid Health Behaviors Program provides incentives to enrollees to …

NM Askelson, B Wright, PJ Brady, YS Jung… - Health …, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
Iowa's Medicaid expansion includes the Healthy Behaviors Program (HBP), which
incentivizes enrollees to receive a wellness exam and complete a health risk assessment …