Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation: a tradeoff between selection and efficiency

Autor: Leida M. Lamers, René C.J.A. van Vliet, Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven, Erik M. van Barneveld
Přispěvatelé: Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Journal of Health Economics, 20, 147-168. Elsevier
ISSN: 0167-6296
Popis: This paper describes forms of risk sharing between insurers and the regulator in a competitive individual health insurance market with imperfectly risk-adjusted capitation payments. Risk sharing implies a reduction of an insurer's incentives for selection as well as for efficiency. In a theoretical analysis, we show how the optimal extent of risk sharing may depend on the weights the regulator assigns to these effects. Some countries employ outlier or proportional risk sharing as a supplement to demographic capitation payments. Our empirical results strongly suggest that other forms of risk sharing yield better tradeoffs between selection and efficiency.
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