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The savings in Medicaid costs for newborns and their mothers from prenatal participation in the WIC program : description of state programs

Author:

Bilheimer, Linda T., United States, Food and Nutrition Service., Office of Analysis and Evaluation., and Mathematica Policy Research, inc

Year:

1990

Subject:

Infants (Newborn), Nutrition, Medical care, Cost control, and Medicaid

Abstract:

This study provides a brief overview of the project and the basic study design. It describes database construction, development and estimation of an analytic model of Medicaid and indigent care costs, and the study findings have been generalized to a national context for five states: Minnesota, North Carolina, South Crolina, Florida and Texas.

Format:

xv, 74 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Language:

English

Publisher:

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Analysis and Evaluation

Collection:

USDA publications

Permanent URL:

http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/56207