TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marquis,M.Susan
AU  - Rogowski,Jeannette A.
ED  - Rand/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Participation in alternative health plans: the role of financial incentives in Medicare beneficiaries' decisions 
SN  - 0833011847
AV  - HD7102.U4 M37 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Insurance, Health
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Finance
KW  - Medicare
N1  - "RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research."; Includes bibliographical references (67-70); Available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Medicare beneficiaries choosing to enroll in an alternative health plan (AHP) must make a tradeoff between restricted choice of provider and financial incentives to enroll in the plan. This study examines this tradeoff empirically by estimating a model of beneficiary plan choice using survey data in which beneficiaries were asked to state a preference between several hypothetical AHPs and their current Medicare coverage. The results show that a substantial financial incentive is necessary to attract beneficiaries.  For an incentive of a given amount, plans that provide financial protection against high-cost hospitalizations or long-term care are more attractive than plans that offer additional ambulatory benefits
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4105/
ER  -