Measuring Prices in Health Care Markets Using Commercial Claims Data

Health insurance and the demand for medical care: Instrumental variable estimates using health insurer claims data.

This paper takes a different approach to estimating demand for medical care that uses the negotiated prices between insurers and providers as an instrument. The instrument is viewed as a textbook "cost shifting" instrument that impacts plan offerings, but is unobserved by consumers. The paper finds a price elasticity of demand of around -0.20, matching the elasticity found in the RAND Health In...

A Health Care Claims Data Mart: Construction and Exploitation

Health care claims data are complicated animals. The eccentricities of this data include differences in the types of claims files and the services which populate those files, variations in the type of providers who service the population and the information needed about each type of provider, and finally, the actual populations of health care recipients and all of their individual specification...

pattern recognition in maintenance data using methodologies data minitng (cade study isfahan regional power electric company)

فعالیت های نگهداری و تعمیرات اطلاعاتی را تولید می کند که می تواند در تعیین زمان های بیکاری و ارایه یک برنامه زمان بندی شده یا تعیین هشدارهای خرابی به پرسنل نگهداری و تعمیرات کمک کند. وقتی که مقدار داده های تولید شده زیاد باشند، فهم بین متغیرها بسیار مشکل می شوند. این پایان نامه به کاربردی از داده کاوی برای کاوش پایگاه های داده چندبعدی در حوزه نگهداری و تعمیرات، برای پیدا کردن خرابی هایی که موجب...

Inflation and health care prices.

Measuring Interval Efficiency in Convex Hull of Data Using DEA