| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23090 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23090 |
| Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare | |
| Vilsa Curto; Liran Einav; Amy Finkelstein; Jonathan D. Levin; Jay Bhattacharya | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-30 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We compare healthcare spending in public and private Medicare using newly available claims data from Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers. MA insurer revenues are 30 percent higher than their healthcare spending. Healthcare spending is 25 percent lower for MA enrollees than for enrollees in traditional Medicare (TM) in the same county with the same risk score. Spending differences between MA and TM are similar across sub-populations of enrollees and sub-categories of care, with similar reductions for "high value" and "low value" care. Spending differences primarily reflect differences in healthcare utilization; spending per encounter and hospital payments per admission are very similar in MA and TM. Geographic variation in MA spending is about 20 percent higher than in TM, but geographic variation in hospital prices is about 20 percent lower. We present evidence consistent with MA plans encouraging substitution to less expensive care, such as primary rather than specialist care, and outpatient rather than inpatient surgery, and with employing various types of utilization management. Some of the overall spending differences between MA and TM may be driven by selection on unobservables, and we report a range of estimates of this selection effect using mortality outcomes to proxy for selection. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23090 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580764 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vilsa Curto,Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein,et al. Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare. 2017. |
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| w23090.pdf（780KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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