Using Survey Measures to Assess Risk Selection among Medicare Managed Care Plans

This paper quantifies risk selection among competing Medicare managed care plans, using beneficiary survey data from the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Survey®. Selection, measured by variation in plan-level prevalence of health conditions and predicted costs, was substantial. A plan with mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alan M. Zaslavsky, Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2002-05-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_39.2.138