Risk-Adjusting the Doughnut Hole to Improve Efficiency and Equity
An important goal of consumer cost-sharing in health insurance is to increase incentives for cost containment. A relatively new cost-sharing phenomenon is the “doughnut hole”: a gap in coverage starting at a predefined level of medical expenses. An important question is where to locate the starting...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2011-11-01
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Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_48.04.05 |