The California cost and coverage model: Analyses of the financial impacts of benefit mandates for the California legislature

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3 II, 2006, Pages 1027-1044

  Kominski, Gerald F ^a   Ripps, Jay C ^b   Laugesen, Miriam J ^a   Cosway, Robert G ^b   Pourat, Nadereh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MILLIMAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based policy analysis; Health care expenditures; Insurance mandates; Utilization and cost impacts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33646706806     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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