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A way to reduce Medicaid churning

July 7, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized tagged Deborah Graefe and Namrata Uberoi, Katherine Swartz, Medicaid, Pamela Short

Commonwealth Fund-supported researchers Katherine Swartz, Pamela Short, Deborah Graefe and Namrata Uberoi have compared in a HealthAffairs piece the potential of four policy options to reduce Medicaid churning. “One option—extending coverage until the end of the calendar year—was found to reduce churning by 78 percent and virtually eliminate administrative burdens.”