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"This study shows that cost containment strategies that result in disenrollment from Medicaid or SCHIP programs can be expected to increase care at expensive sites, including EDs and hospitals, and decrease care that is received in physician's offices. Such changes in site of care not only will increase health care costs but also will aggravate current community problems of ED overcrowding and inpatient bed shortages. The total number of ED visits and inpatient days can be expected to increase as well as the amount of uncompensated care that is provided by hospitals and EDs that serve as safety net providers when Medicaid/SCHIP-insured children disenroll."

- Mary E. Rimsza, Richard J. Butler, and William G. Johnson, Impact of Medical Disenrollment on Health Care Use and Cost, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006.2747, Pediatrics 2007; 119; e1026-e1032