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Category: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance (ESHI)
Implementing ACO’s
One strategy for implementing Accountable Care Organizations is detailed in the case study of Advocate Physician Partners. This case report describes Advocate Physician Partners (APP) in Illinois, a physician-hospital Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model which seeks to integrate independent physician Continue Reading …
The Appropriateness of Age Rating
National Health Expenditure Data (NHED) obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) allows for the comparison of personal health spending based multiple factors. Considering the debate surrounding the appropriateness of age rating variation, this analysis seeks a Continue Reading …
Insurance Exchanges
An insurance exchange provides managed competition through the use of “sponsors” or collective purchasing agents who negotiate with insurers and offer individuals a menu of choices among different health insurance plans.
Japan’s Tragedy of the Commons
The Japanese tout one of the world’s best multipayer, universal health care systems in terms of long life expectancy, copious technology, and low cost. Still, areas for improvement persist and lessons for the US abound.
Don’t Tax my ‘Lac
Health economists have long argued that the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) benefits skews an already imperfect health insurance market. Such tax free benefits encourage the maximization of expenditures on health insurance coverage in exchange for lower take Continue Reading …
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