The federally-funded health center program aims to deliver high-quality, culturally-competent primary health care services, as well as ancillary health and supportive services, such as care coordination, health education, and oral health care, to all persons regardless of their …
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There has been much work to improve IT systems for managing and maintaining health records. The U.S government is trying to integrate different types of health care data for providers and patients. Health care fraud detection research has focused on claims by providers, physicia…
In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work is to shed light on long-term care decisions in general and to inform State policy decisions which partly govern in…
The thesis covers three different topics in empirical microeconomics. The first chapter looks at how firms' organizational form affects investment financing constraints. I show conditions in which information asymmetry is severe and bankruptcy courts are ineffective, organizatio…
Over the past several decades, the cost of healthcare across the globe continued to increase. The projection is for faster growth in all sectors due to the improving economy, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the aging United States’ population (i.e., Baby Boomers). This growth…
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study assesses the costs and benefits to using Medicaid funding to implement a well-known evidence-based program, Func…
This research aims to improve our understanding about the association between precarious employment and healthcare access. Using the framework of neoliberalism and the history of welfare reform in the United States, this thesis investigates the relationship between precarious la…