Research Paper. The Power of Reinsurance in Health Insurance Exchanges to Improve the Fit of the Payment System and Reduce Incentives for Adverse Selection.

Risk adjustment and reinsurance protect plans against risk of losses and contend with adverse selection in the new health insurance Exchanges. This article assesses the power of reinsurance in the context of other plan payment features, including prospective and concurrent risk adjustment. Using dat...

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Published in:Inquiry (00469580) Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 255 - 275
Main Authors: Zhu, Jane M., Layton, Timothy, Sinaiko, Anna D., McGuire, Thomas G.
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Nov2013
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