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El seguro privado de enfermedad constituye uno de los principales ramos de la actividad aseguradora de los países desarrollados. En España, en el año 2005, representa el 8,84% del total de primas emitidas de seguro directo. Pero su importancia reside no solo en su papel en el mercado...
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We analyze health care option demand markets with vertical restraints divided along two dimensions: naked and conditional exclusion, and vertical integration; applicable to the upstream, the downstream, and both markets. Our unified framework includes forward and backward integration, and joint...
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Risk adjustment is used in settings with uncertainty to make payments or allow comparisons of outcomes while controlling for exogenous risk factors that explain variations in the outcome of interest, such as spending, utilisation, quality or death. This article focuses on the conceptual and...
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We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to stay uninsured. In case of a monopoly insurer, exclusion of a provider changes the distribution of consumers who choose not to insure. Although the foreclosed care provider remains...
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This paper examines a model of competition between two types of health insurers: Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and “Conventional Insurers." MCOs vertically integrate health care providers and pay them at a competitive price, while conventional insurers work as indemnity plans and pay the...
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We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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This document analyzes the access to health services for the population belonging to the contributive and subsidized regimes in the Colombian Caribbean region. Models of discreet selection are constructed - simple logit and Heckman probit - to gain insight about the determinants for the use of...
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La integración vertical en el sector salud se refiere a la estructura de gobierno diseñada para coordinar y controlar los servicios de atención en diferentes estados de la cadena de valor, así como para facilitar la colaboración y comunicación entre los oferentes de servicios. Para el caso...
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La integración vertical en el sector salud se refiere a la estructura de gobierno diseñada para coordinar y controlar los servicios de atención en diferentes estados de la cadena de valor, así como para facilitar la colaboración y comunicación entre los oferentes de servicios. Para el caso...
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Dada la importancia de la salud en el bienestar de las personas y el impacto que tienen los gastos en salud sobre la economía de las familias, la ubicuidad del tema no es sorprendente. Sin embargo, no es sencillo para las múltiples partes involucradas definir los problemas, sintetizar los...
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