SELECTED Publications

• Joseph Benitez with Huang Huang^ and Portia L. Johnson. The Relationship Between COVID-19 Pandemic-Linked Job Losses and Health Care Access and Household Financial Health in Medicaid Expansion and Non-expansion States. Medical Care; ():10.1097/MLR.0000000000001933, October 5, 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001933

• Paul Shafer, Kenneth Lim, Demetri Goutos, Nicole Huberfeld, Joseph Benitez, Kevin Hsu, Julia Raifman. Making pandemic era Medicaid continuous coverage automatic for future crises. Health Services Research; 1-4. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.14225 

• Joseph Benitez (2022). Comparison of Unemployment-Related Health Insurance Coverage Changes in Medicaid Expansion vs Nonexpansion States During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Heal Forum. 2022;3(6):e221632-e221632. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1632

•  Joseph Benitez and Lisa Dubay (2022). COVID-19-Related Medicaid Enrollment in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States. Health Services Research.  doi:10.1111/1475-6773.14029

• Victoria Perez, Joseph Benitez, and Justin Ross (2021). The Role of Medicaid in Mitigating Pandemic-Related Fiscal Strain on Local Governments. Public Budgeting and Finance. Online ahead of print. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12298   

• Joseph Benitez with Timothy Williams, Evan Goldstein, and Eric Seiber. The Effects of Unemployment on Coverage and Health—Before and after the Affordable Care Act’s Coverage Expansions. Medical Care. Online ahead of print. July 26, 2021. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001603. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34310457. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001603  

• Joseph Benitez with Victoria Perez and Jie Chen (2021). Did Medicaid Slow Declines in Access to Care during the Great Recession? Health Services Research. 2021; 56(4): 655-667. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13645  

• Joseph Benitez with Victoria Perez and Eric Seiber (2020). Medicaid Access during Economic Distress: Lessons Learned from the Great Recession. Medical Care Research & Review. Epub ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558720909237.  

• Victoria Perez, Joseph Benitez, and Eric Seiber (2018). Elasticity of Medicaid Access with Respect to State Financial Distress. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 384–387.doi: 10.1257/pandp.20181107. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20181107  

• Joseph Benitez with Eric Seiber (2017). U.S. Health Care Reform and Rural America: Results from the ACA’s Medicaid Expansions. Journal of Rural Health. 2018 Mar;34(2):213-222. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12284. Epub 2017 Nov 6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29105809/ 

• Joseph Benitez, E. Kathleen Adams and Eric Seiber (2017). Did Health Care Reform Help Kentucky Address Disparities among the Poor? Health Services Research. 2018 June; 53(3):1387-1406. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12699. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28439903/