| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19401
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19401
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| Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets |
| Kate Ho; Robin S. Lee
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| 发表日期 | 2013-09-05
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The impact of insurer competition on welfare, negotiated provider prices, and premiums in the U.S. private health care industry is theoretically ambiguous. Reduced competition may increase the premiums charged by insurers and their payments made to hospitals. However, it may also strengthen insurers' bargaining leverage when negotiating with hospitals, thereby generating offsetting cost decreases. To understand and measure this trade-off, we estimate a model of employer-insurer and hospital-insurer bargaining over premiums and reimbursements, household demand for insurance, and individual demand for hospitals using detailed California admissions, claims, and enrollment data. We simulate the removal of both large and small insurers from consumers' choice sets. Although consumer welfare decreases and premiums typically increase, we find that premiums can fall upon the removal of a small insurer if an employer imposes effective premium constraints through negotiations with the remaining insurers. We also document substantial heterogeneity in hospital price adjustments upon the removal of an insurer, with renegotiated price increases and decreases of as much as 10% across markets. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Industrial Organization
; Market Structure and Firm Performance
; Antitrust
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19401
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577076
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Kate Ho,Robin S. Lee. Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets. 2013.
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