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Optimal Quality Reporting In Markets For Health Plans

In: Models of Health Plan Payment and Quality Reporting

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  • Jacob Glazer
  • Thomas G. McGuire

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Quality reports about health plans and providers are becoming more prevalent in health care markets. This paper casts the decision about what information to report to consumers about health plans as a policy decision. In a market with adverse selection, complete information about quality leads to inefficient outcomes. In a Rothschild-Stiglitz model, we show that averaging quality information into a summary report can enforce pooling in health insurance, and by choice of the right weights in the averaged report, a payer or regulator can induce first-best quality choices. The optimal quality report is as powerful as optimal risk adjustment in correcting adverse selection inefficiencies. ©2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Jacob Glazer & Thomas G. McGuire, 2017. "Optimal Quality Reporting In Markets For Health Plans," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Jacob Glazer & Thomas G McGuire (ed.), Models of Health Plan Payment and Quality Reporting, chapter 4, pages 83-104, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Health Insurance; Regulation; Adverse Selection; Efficiency; Fairness; Risk Adjustment; Quality Reporting;
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    JEL classification:

    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private

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