Using Survey Measures to Assess Risk Selection among Medicare Managed Care Plans
This paper quantifies risk selection among competing Medicare managed care plans, using beneficiary survey data from the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Survey®. Selection, measured by variation in plan-level prevalence of health conditions and predicted costs, was substantial. A plan with mode...
Main Authors: | Alan M. Zaslavsky, Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2002-05-01
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Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_39.2.138 |
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