The United Mine Workers' Health PlanAn Analysis of the Cost-Sharing Program
作者:
Richard Scheffler,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 3
页码: 247-254
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1984
出版商: OVID
关键词: cost-sharing;health care use
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
This article reports on the introduction of a cost-sharing health care plan to the United Mine Workers. The authors discuss the data base and analyze the impact of the program on the use of health care, the probability of a hospital admission, hospital expenditures and length of stay, the demand for physician services, and the probability of seeing a physician. Hospital admissions and hospital expenditures per stay decreased, as did the probability of seeing a physician. It is suggested that these behavioral adjustments to cost sharing are fairly rapid and long lasting.
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