A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare.

Autor: Boone J; Department of Economics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands; CEPR, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: j.boone@uvt.nl., Remmerswaal M; Department of Economics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of health economics [J Health Econ] 2024 Sep; Vol. 97, pp. 102900. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 27.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102900
Abstrakt: Demand-side cost-sharing reduces moral hazard in healthcare but increases exposure to out-of-pocket expenditure. We introduce a structural microsimulation model to evaluate both total and out-of-pocket expenditure for different cost-sharing schemes. We use a Bayesian mixture model to capture the healthcare expenditure distributions across different age-gender categories. We estimate the model using Dutch data and simulate outcomes for a number of policies. The model suggests that for a deductible of 300 euros shifting the starting point of the deductible away from zero to 400 euros leads to an average 4% reduction in healthcare expenditure and 47% lower out-of-pocket payments.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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