Difference in Hospital Utilization Within the First 12 Months Among Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Medicaid Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service: A Regression Discontinuity Study

Social Sciences

• fee-for-service 100%
• managed care 84%
• infant 62%
• utilization 59%
• regression 47%
• cooperative system 29%
• hospitalization 20%
• health risk 19%
• research practice 17%
• Healthcare 14%
• planning 11%
• time 6%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Fee-for-Service Plans 96%
• Managed Care Programs 85%
• Medicaid 82%
• Low Birth Weight Infant 79%
• Birth Weight 7%
• Hospital Emergency Service 5%
• Datasets 5%
• Hospitalization 5%
• Delivery of Health Care 4%
• Health 3%