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Three Essays on Health Insurance and Health Care Consumption

Three Essays on Health Insurance and Health Care Consumption PDF Author: Fei Liu
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ISBN: 9788074130861
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Languages : en
Pages : 249

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The third essay investigates the switching behavior of non-elderly enrollees in U.S. managed care plans. Treatment effect analysis is used to examine the disaggregated expenditures of plan switchers and plan stayers prior to their decision to switch or stay. Propensity score matching methods are used to estimate the average treatment effects on the treated. The results, which are based on a national representative data set from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, indicate that switchers (from HMO to non-HMO) spend more on hospitalization. The other type of switchers (from non-HMO to HMO) spends less on prescribed medicine and office-based physician visits. The findings suggest that the non-HMO private managed care plans provide better coverage on hospitalization, office-based physician visits and prescribed medicine than the HMO plans.