Johnny Kim

The cesarean delivery rate rises by 3.9 percent for each $100 increase in fees. Medicare expenditures have soared by 250 percent over the past decade to $203 billion in 1996. Medicaid has grown by 400 percent to $148 billion. These two giant programs accounted for nearly a third of the growth in the...

While there is a large literature investigating the response of treatment intensity to Medicare reimbursement differentials, there is much less work on this question for the Medicaid program. The answers for Medicare may not apply in the Medicaid context, since a smaller share of physician's...