Anne DeCesaro

Overview

Anne DeCesaro is a researcher at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Her work on SSI children focuses on health care access, unmet needs, and medical out-of-pocket expenses using the NSCF data.

Key Contributions / Features

• Unmet health care needs of SSI children (DeCesaro and Hemmeter 2009): Lead author of the NSCF-based profile showing 9.5% unmet needs and 24% MOOP incidence among SSI children; Medicaid as dominant protector (non-Medicaid insured have 1.5× unmet needs and 4.7× MOOP incidence); administrative barriers more prevalent than financial barriers; SSI income is fungible (not earmarked for medical spending).

Related

• Jeffrey Hemmeter
• SSI Children's Program
• Paul S. Davies
• Kalman Rupp

Sources

• DeCesaro and Hemmeter 2009 — Unmet Health Care Needs and Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses of SSI Children