{"545171":{"#nid":"545171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Examine Medicaid Costs for Children","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a headline that\u2019s been around for years: 90 percent of Medicaid dollars are spent on just 10 percent of the most medically needy patients. But new research from Georgia Tech shows that\u2019s not exactly true, and the spending gap is much smaller than we think, particularly for children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E Professor Julie Swann, Associate Professor Nicoleta Serban, and Ph.D. student Pravara Harati have analyzed six years of Medicaid claims for every child in ten U.S. states to compare the differences in cost for different types of patients based on their level of health and income. They found that healthy children are actually 50 to 60 percent of the total cost in the Medicaid system in Georgia, for example.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the rest of the article here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-researchers-examine-medicaid-costs-children\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-researchers-examine-medicaid-costs-children\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a headline that\u2019s been around for years: 90 percent of Medicaid dollars are spent on just 10 percent of the most medically needy patients. But new research from three researchers in ISyE shows that\u2019s not exactly true, and the spending gap is much smaller than we think, particularly for children.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It\u2019s a headline that\u2019s been around for years: 90 percent of Medicaid dollars are spent on just 10 percent of the most medically needy patients. But new research from three researchers in ISyE shows that\u2019s not exactly true, and the spending gap is much sma"}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-06-15 15:46:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:57","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"545151":{"id":"545151","type":"image","title":"ISyE Researchers Examine Medicaid Costs for Children","body":null,"created":"1466092800","gmt_created":"2016-06-16 16:00:00","changed":"1475895336","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:36","alt":"ISyE Researchers Examine Medicaid Costs for Children","file":{"fid":"91136","name":"dreamstime_xl_8182467.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dreamstime_xl_8182467.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dreamstime_xl_8182467.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5509,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dreamstime_xl_8182467.jpg?itok=ClJEoE-0"}}},"media_ids":["545151"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"170460","name":"Medicaid data"},{"id":"3502","name":"nicoleta serban"},{"id":"170140","name":"Pravara Harati"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}