Inpatient Medicaid Usage and Expenditure Patterns After Changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefit Levels
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 15 — October 4, 2018
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The actual percentage change in costs each month from January 2006 varied from about −15% during 2006 to about 15% by March 2009 (just before the increase in SNAP benefits), about 25% by October 2013, (just before the decrease in SNAP benefits), and about 45% by December 2014.
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Interrupted time series analysis of changes in nationwide inpatient Medicare expenditures in response to changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), January 2006–January 2014. SNAP benefits increased monthly by a minimum of 13.6% per SNAP household in April 2009, and this increase expired in November 2013.
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