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Because the optimal level of medical malpractice liability depends on the incentives provided by the health insurance …
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the payment rate is a primary determinant of HMO participation, while the price of a supplemental Medicare insurance …
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By 1993, over 70% of all Americans with health insurance were enrolled in some form of managed care plan. The term … traditional insurance plans, include the selection and organization of providers, the choice of payment methods (including … is somewhat lower cost than that enrolled in conventional insurance. This complicates analysis of the effect of managed …
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is more dubious; response to financial incentives such as insurance is exacerbated; the social consequences and external …
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Exploiting random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we identify plan-specific effects on healthcare utilization. Auto-assignment to the lowest-spending plan generates 30% lower spending than if the same enrollee were assigned to the highest-spending plan, despite...
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We analyze the role of three aspects of HMO market structure -- HMO penetration, HMO plan concentration, and HMO for-profit share on explaining hospital cost and revenue growth during the HMO expansion period (1994-1999) and backlash period (2000-2005). We find that HMO penetration effects...
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This paper investigates the impact of Medicare HMO penetration on the medical care expenditures incurred by Medicare fee-for-service enrollees. We find that increasing penetration leads to reduced health care spending on fee-for-service beneficiaries. In particular, a one percentage point...
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We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical "missteps". The data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are that the new information technology lowers average charges...
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This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six medical conditions in California, New York, and Wisconsin. We used linked hospital discharge and vital statistics data to study adults hospitalized for myocardial infarction, hip...
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effect: hospitals that do not need to contract with all insurance plans to secure demand (for example, providers that are …. Hospitals can merge to form "systems" which may also affect bargaining between hospitals and insurance plans. The analysis … estimates the expected division of profits between insurance plans and different types of hospitals using data on insurers …
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