Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23025 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie I No. 329
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz
Abstract: 
In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection. We derive the optimal cost reimbursement function which balances the incentives for cost efficiency and risk selection. For health cost data from a Swiss health insurer, we find that an optimal cost reimbursement scheme should reimburse costs only up to a limit.
Subjects: 
health insurance
risk selection
risk adjustment
JEL: 
H42
I18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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