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Reimbursing Preventive Care

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  • Francesca Barigozzi

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The paper focuses on secondary prevention, such as diagnostic screening, medical examinations and checks-up, which refers to the early detection of disease. Secondary prevention is analyzed as a self-insurance activity reducing the negative shock of illness and can be either complement or substitute to illness treatment. This paper analyses the optimal reimbursement scheme for both prevention and treatment when each activity receives either a linear subsidy (i.e. cost sharing) or tax. Although optimal reimbursement systematically encourages treatment, it positively affects prevention if and only if prevention reduces the cost of treatment, that is in the case the two activities are substitutes.

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  • Francesca Barigozzi, 2004. "Reimbursing Preventive Care," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, Springer;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 29(2), pages 165-186, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:geneva:v:29:y:2004:i:2:p:165-186
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    1. Cremer, Helmuth & Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie, 2025. "Nonlinear reimbursement rules for preventive and curative medical care," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    2. Francesca Barigozzi, 2006. "Supplementary Insurance with 'ex post' moral hazard: efficiency and redistribution," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 83-84, pages 295-325.
    3. Udo Schneider & Jürgen Zerth, 2011. "Improving Prevention Compliance through Appropriate Incentives: Theoretical Modelling and Empirical Evidence," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 147(I), pages 71-106, March.
    4. Francesca Barigozzi & Renaud Bourlès & Dominique Henriet & Giuseppe Pignataro, 2017. "Pool size and the sustainability of optimal risk-sharing agreements," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 82(2), pages 273-303, February.
    5. Ellis, Randall P. & Manning, Willard G., 2007. "Optimal health insurance for prevention and treatment," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(6), pages 1128-1150, December.
    6. Schneider, Udo & Zerth, Jürgen, 2008. "Improving prevention compliance through appropriate incentives," MPRA Paper 8280, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Pannequin, François & Corcos, Anne & Montmarquette, Claude, 2020. "Are insurance and self-insurance substitutes? An experimental approach," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 180(C), pages 797-811.
    8. Seog, S. Hun & Hong, Jimin, 2024. "Moral hazard in loss reduction and state-dependent utility," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 151-168.
    9. Pashchenko, Svetlana, 2025. "Comments on “Income differences and health disparities: Roles of preventive vs. curative medicine” by Serdar Ozkan," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).

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