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  • Title: Medicaid's medical transportation assurance: origins, evolution, current trends, and implications for health reform.
    Author: Rosenbaum S, Lopez N, Morris MJ, Simon M.
    Journal: Policy Brief George Wash Univ Cent Health Serv Res Policy; 2009 Jul; ():1-24. PubMed ID: 19771607.
    Abstract:
    This policy brief examines Medicaid's assurance of medical transportation in the context of medically necessary but non-emergency health care. Reviewing the origins and evolution of the assurance and presenting the results of a 2009 survey of state Medicaid programs, the results of this analysis underscore Medicaid's unique capacity to not only finance medically necessary health care but also the services and supports that enable access to health care by low income persons since Medicaid covers non-emergency medical transportation. This ability to both finance health care and enable its use moves to the forefront as Congress considers whether to assist low income persons in health reform through Medicaid expansions or via subsidies for traditional health insurance, which typically does not provide comparable transportation coverage.
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