Medicaid Traffic Accident Injury Claims in Michigan, 1980-1981

摘要

The aim of the project was to investigate the Medicaid claims data to determine the number and cost of Medicaid claims resulting from traffic accident injuries in the State of Michigan. The Medicaid Inpatient General Hospital Claims data from 1980 and 1981 were used to determine the number and costs of Medicaid claims resulting from traffic accidents. There were 401 such claims identified in the 1980 data and 298 in the 1981 data. These resulted in Medicaid charges of 1.1 million dollars in 1980 and one million dollars in 1981. The State of Michigan pays forty-nine percent of these costs from state tax revenues (the federal government pays the balance from federal tax revenues). Medicaid hospital claims resulting from traffic accidents represent a very small part of Medicaid hospital expenditures, approximately 0.32 percent. Medicaid also pays only a small part of the medical costs from traffic accident injuries. The intent to have the public pay for medical costs of traffic accidents through private auto or health insurance seems to have been largely accomplished.