A5108019669- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Global Health Care Issues
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation
RTI International
2010-2020
The Affordable Care Act provides for a program of risk adjustment in the individual and small group health insurance markets 2014 as Marketplaces are implemented new market reforms take effect.The purpose is to lessen or eliminate influence selection on premiums that plans charge.The methodology includes model transfer formula.This article third three this issue Medicare & Medicaid Research Review describe ACA focuses formula.In our first companion article, we discussed key issues choices...
Background: The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reformed the individual small group health insurance markets established a risk adjustment program to create level playing field for competition. A new set of predictive models measuring enrollee across plans was developed Act-reformed markets, referred as Department Health Human Services Hierarchical Condition Category (HHS-HCC) models. Beginning in 2018, selected prescription drug classes were added markers. Objective: We...
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences strategy to decompose the contributions of various types discrimination black-white wage differential. The proposed estimation is implemented using data from Young Physicians Survey. results suggest that potential plays small role in racial gap among physicians. At most, lowers hourly wages black physicians by 3.3 percent. Decomposition shows consumer accounts for all physician market, and effect firm may actually favor Interpretations...