Performance Pay in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Medicare
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Keywords
pay-for-performance; Medicare Advantage; risk selection; quality ratings; health insurance access;All these keywords.
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- I - Health, Education, and Welfare
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2021-01-11 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2021-01-11 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-IAS-2021-01-11 (Insurance Economics)
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