Risk adjustment in health insurance and its long-term effectiveness

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-498

  Beck, Konstantin ^a,b   Trottmann, Maria ^a   Zweifel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSS Institute for Empirical Health Economics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

G22; I10; I11; Managed competition; Risk adjustment; Risk selection

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; MORBIDITY; PROFITABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROFIT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; ADULT; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE SELECTION BIAS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MANAGED COMPETITION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77954659647     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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