Risk adjustment and prevention

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Risk Adjustment and Prevention

Widespread integration of market-based incentives into healthcare systems calls for — and has elicited — increasing adoption of risk adjustment. By deterring selection, risk adjustment helps to assure fair and efficient payments among health insurers or capitated provider groups. However, since conventional risk adjustment allocates funds among regions or insurers according to current populatio...

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Prevention and Dynamic Risk Adjustment

Risk adjustment deters selection and helps to assure fair and efficient payments among health insurers or capitated provider groups. However, since conventional risk adjustment allocates funds among insurers or regions according to current population health status, it does not reward — indeed, it penalizes — provider preventive efforts that improve population health. This prevention penalty of ...

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Risk Adjustment, Innovation and Prevention

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Risk Selection and Risk Adjustment

Synopsis: Risk selection, which occurs when an individual’s demand for a product is correlated with her risk, creates inefficiencies and inequalities in markets for those products and services. Studies have shown that risk selection often occurs in health care markets, especially in markets for health insurance. Risk adjustment is a method that has been developed to correct those inefficiencies...

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Risk adjustment and risk-adjusted provider profiles

Provider profiles are an important component of efforts to improve both healthcare productivity and quality. Risk adjustment is the attempt to account for differences in the risk for specific outcomes of cases in different groups in order to facilitate more meaningful comparisons. The value of provider profiles, whether used internally or released to the public, depends both on adequate risk ad...

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique

سال: 2012

ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01747.x