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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Risk-type concentration and efficiency incentives: a challenge for the risk adjustment formula |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1018-5895 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page Range | 503 - 520 |
| Date | 2010 |
| Abstract Text | An important goal of risk-adjusted capitation payments (RACPs) to competitive community-rated health plans-that may differ in coverage and/or the organisation of delivering care-is to reduce incentives for risk selection while maintaining incentives for efficiency. In most schemes, RACPs are simply based on the average observed costs in risk groups (in a prior year). We show that under this procedure, incentives for efficiency will not always be maintained: when identical risk types are concentrated in the same health plans-due to selection, specialisation or just coincidence-cost savings can be captured by the RACPs and leak away from these plans. |
| Official URL | http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/journal/v35/n4/full/gpp201025a.html |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1057/gpp.2010.25 |
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