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Growing importance of capitation in Switzerland

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Since its liberalisation the Swiss health insurance market has shown risk selection activities of the insurance funds, which call for risk adjustment. Because risk selection continues to be profitable under the current risk adjustment formula, fast growing HMO and PPO plans are (mis)used to attract good risks rather than to contain costs. For fear of being replaced by one centralised fund, social health insurers are themselves proposing improvements of the risk adjustment formula, to be applied to funds. The revised formula proposed in this paper, applicable among funds for risk adjustment and to gatekeeping models to calculate fair capitation, explains 12.4% of the variance of health care expenditure, halves profits from risk selection, and uses only the (few) data that are available in Switzerland. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

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  • Konstantin Beck, 2000. "Growing importance of capitation in Switzerland," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 111-119, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:hcarem:v:3:y:2000:i:2:p:111-119
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1019081021645
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    1. Barros, Pedro Pita, 2003. "Cream-skimming, incentives for efficiency and payment system," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(3), pages 419-443, May.
    2. Beck, Konstantin & Spycher, Stefan & Holly, Alberto & Gardiol, Lucien, 2003. "Risk adjustment in Switzerland," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 63-74, July.
    3. Álvaro Riascos & Eduardo Alfonso & Mauricio Romero, 2014. "The Performance of Risk Adjustment Models in Colombian Competitive Health Insurance Market," Documentos CEDE 12062, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.

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