Insurance and Provider Markets
Our work in Insurance and Provider Markets
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Medicare Advantage: Better Information Tools, Better Beneficiary Choices, Better Competition
Since the 1970s, and codified in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, Medicare beneficiaries have had the choice of receiving their Medicare benefits through private health plans instead of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program administered by the federal government. The policy thrust of private plan participation in Medicare is that competition […]
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Lifetime Consequences of Early-Life and Midlife Access to Health Insurance: A Review
The researchers reviewed 112 experimental or quasi-experimental studies on the effects of health insurance prior to people becoming eligible for Medicare on a broad set of outcomes.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Reform: Balancing Costs, Coverage and Quality
Thursday | November 16, 2017
3:00 PM- 6:30 PM PT
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Taking Stock of Insurer Financial Performance in the Individual Health Insurance Market Through 2017
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) implemented wide-ranging reforms to the individual health insurance market starting in 2014, most importantly by barring insurers from denying coverage or varying premiums based on health status, requiring all plans to cover certain services and provide a basic level of financial protection, providing subsidies to help low- and moderate-income people […]
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A Better Approach to Regulating Provider Network Adequacy
Health care reforms, including those put in place by the Affordable Care Act, are making insurers more competitive. However, in their effort to lower costs, health insurers more often are selling health plans that cover fewer hospitals, and many fewer physicians. This narrowing of provider networks is a sign that market reforms may be improving […]
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Three Federal Actions That May Address Surprise Bills
Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain the details of each action, and discuss the merits, risks, and limitations of these reforms.Â
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Bringing Micro-Theory to Data A Lecture by Joseph Stiglitz
Friday | July 28, 2017
5:00- 6:00 PM
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Turmoil in the Individual Insurance Market—Where It Came From and How to Fix It
The ACA’s individual market structure—though not perfect—is sound and has succeeded in greatly expanding coverage.
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Graduating into a Downturn: Are Physicians Recession Proof?
Alice Chen, Anthony Lo Sasso, and Michael Richards leverage a unique dataset to analyze if and how the Great Recession impacted the labor market of physicians who were seeking their first job post residency and fellowship training.
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Moving in the Wrong Direction—Health Care under the AHCA
A growing body of analytic work, including a Congressional Budget Office assessment, paints a dismal picture of how the American Health Care Act would affect the health care system.
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