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SUBMITTER: Chatterji P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7512023 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] 20150101 2
As of 2014, 37 states have passed mandates requiring many private health insurance policies to cover diagnostic and treatment services for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We explore whether ASD mandates are associated with out-of-pocket costs, financial burden, and cost or insurance-related problems with access to treatment among privately insured children with special health care needs (CSHCNs). We use difference-in-difference and difference-in-difference-in-difference approaches, comparing p ...[more]