Gerald A Gardner

• Cost-Sharing and Prior Authorization Effects on Medicaid Services in California

  Carl E Hopkins, Milton I Roemer et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1975

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  Providers for California's Medical program were interviewed to determine their reaction to the copayment experiment. Private physicians, pharmacists, and nursing homes routinely collected the copayments and though it was not a particular hardship on the patients. Hospital outpatient departments often did not collect. Physicians both in hospitals and in private practice generally did not know which patients were copayers and hence copayment had no…

• Cost-Sharing and Prior Authorization Effects on Medicaid Services in California

  Carl E Hopkins, Milton I Roemer et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1975

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  In January 1972, California initiated a cost-sharing "experiment" as a means of containing rising costs of the Medicaid program. Beneficiaries who had some personal assets were required to pay a token amount for each doctor visit or prescription. This was expected to deter unnecessary services without affecting really needed care. An interview survey was made of beneficiaries continuously in copayment status throughout the 18 months of the experi…

• Cost-Sharing and Prior Authorization Effects on Medicaid Services in California

  Carl E Hopkins, Milton I Roemer et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1975

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  Providers for California's Medical program were interviewed to determine their reaction to the copayment experiment. Private physicians, pharmacists, and nursing homes routinely collected the copayments and though it was not a particular hardship on the patients. Hospital outpatient departments often did not collect. Physicians both in hospitals and in private practice generally did not know which patients were copayers and hence copayment had no…

• Cost-Sharing and Prior Authorization Effects on Medicaid Services in California

  Carl E Hopkins, Milton I Roemer et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1975

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  In January 1972, California initiated a cost-sharing "experiment" as a means of containing rising costs of the Medicaid program. Beneficiaries who had some personal assets were required to pay a token amount for each doctor visit or prescription. This was expected to deter unnecessary services without affecting really needed care. An interview survey was made of beneficiaries continuously in copayment status throughout the 18 months of the experi…

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