Hospital Prices in Medicaid Managed Care
Jeffrey Marr, Yang Wang, Jianhui (Frank) Xu, Ge Bai, Gerard Anderson, Mark Meiselbach
As of 2020, 70% of Medicaid beneficiaries (57 million) were insured through Medicaid managed care (MMC), in which a private insurer covers a beneficiary’s medical care in exchange for fixed payments from state Medicaid agencies.1 A key role of MMC insurers is to negotiate prices with hospitals. MMC prices have important implications for government health expenditures and access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries. However, little is known about MMC prices.2 We used hospitals’ self-disclosed pricing information to characterize MMC hospital prices.
Citation
Marr J, Wang Y, Xu J, Bai G, Anderson G, Meiselbach MK. Hospital Prices in Medicaid Managed Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(11):e2344841. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.44841