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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Lundberg, Shelly - 2016
The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates … for marital commitment. As the gains from traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has …
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Does Consolidation in Insurer Markets affect Insurance Enrollment and Drug Expenditures? : Evidence from Medicare Part D
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Jin, Tao; Wang, Yichuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since the inception of Medicare Part D in 2006, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and regulatory changes have led to increased concentration and reduced plan variety in the standalone prescription drug plan (PDP) portion of the market. We examine how this industry consolidation affects Medicare...
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Pricing Innovation in Surgical Care Markets
Chen, Alice; Freedman, Seth; Munnich, Elizabeth L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on price signals for downstream providers, which can also be discordant across production inputs. We examine such a context when Medicare sharply revises facility fees--while holding...
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Partial Outsourcing of Public Programs : Evidence on Determinants of Choice in Medicare
Cabral, Marika; Carey, Colleen; Son, Jinyeong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many public programs let individuals choose between publicly provided benefits and a subsidized private alternative. We investigate the determinants of health insurance choice in Medicare--a setting with vast geographic variation in the share of individuals selecting the public option versus...
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The Impact of Privatization : Evidence from the Hospital Sector
Duggan, Mark G.; Gupta, Atul; Jackson, Emilie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private operators may improve hospitals' financial...
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Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices : Evidence from Medicaid
Kreider, Amanda R.; Layton, Timothy J.; Shepard, Mark; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid. Studying a network change, we find that covering a top cancer hospital causes severe adverse selection,...
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The Effect of Performance Pay Incentives on Market Frictions : Evidence from Medicare
Gupta, Atul; David, Guy; Kim, Kunhee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care coordination across providers, reducing market frictions, and ultimately to improve quality of care. This paper provides new empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data...
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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes
Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We analyze the effects of introducing these new billing codes. First, we provide evidence on the adoption of the new codes by...
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Gaming and Effort in Performance Pay
Bertuzzi, Luca; Eliason, Paul J.; Heebsh, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual variation in the criteria for Medicare's Quality...
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