Spillovers From Medicaid Contraceptive Use to Non-Medicaid Patients: Evidence From New York.

This study examines spillovers from a 2014 New York Medicaid policy change that increased reimbursement for immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) insertion. Using administrative data on hospital deliveries from 2011 through 2019, we analyze whether physicians who inserted immediate postpartum LARCs for Medicaid patients following the policy change were more likely to subsequently perform the procedure on non-Medicaid patients. We find significant spillovers, as physicians who first perform an immediate postpartum Medicaid LARC insertion following the 2014 payment reform are 9.