Multiple payers, commonality and free-riding in health care: Medicare and private payers
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Multiple payers, commonality and free-riding in health care: Medicare and private payers.
Managed health care plans and providers in the US and elsewhere sell their services to multiple payers. For example, the three largest groups of purchasers from health plans in the US are employers, Medicaid plans, and Medicare, with the first two accounting for over 90% of the total enrollees. In the case of hospitals, Medicare is the largest buyer, but it alone only accounts for 40% of the to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6296(02)00078-4