Steps To Reduce Favorable Risk Selection In Medicare Advantage Largely Succeeded, Boding Well For Health Insurance Exchanges.

Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks-healthier, lower-cost patients-than has traditional Medicare. The disproportionate enrollment of lower-cost patients and avoidance of higher-cost ones during the 1990s-known as favorable selection--resulted in Me...

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Published in:Health Affairs Vol. 31; no. 12; pp. 2618 - 2629
Main Authors: Newhouse, Joseph P., Price, Mary, Huang, Jie, Mcwilliams, J. Michael, Hsu, John
Format: Journal Article
Published: Health Affairs Publishing, LLC Dec2012
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