Private health insurance plans in 1978 and 1979: a review of coverage, enrollment, and financial experience [0.03%]
1978年和1979年的私人健康保险计划：关于保障范围、参保情况及财务状况的回顾性分析
M S Carroll,R H Arnett rd
M S Carroll
The private health insurance industry collected $55.9 billion in premiums in 1979 and returned $50.2 billion in benefits to its subscribers. Premiums rose 12.4 percent, slightly faster than in 1978 when premiums rose 11.4 percent, to $49.7 ...
B L Dutton Jr,P McMenamin
B L Dutton Jr
C E Yesalis rd,G J Norwood,D P Lipson et al.
C E Yesalis rd et al.
This article evaluates changes in the use of drug services and the corresponding costs when the conventional fee-for-service system for reimbursement of pharmacists under medicaid is replaced by a capitation system. The fee-for-service syst...
Individual health accounts: an alternative health care financing approach [0.03%]
个人医疗账户：一种医疗保健融资方式的替代选择
M Stano
M Stano
After examining the major determinants of inefficiency in health care markets and several recent proposals to correct these problems, this paper introduces a market-oriented alternative which could be highly efficient while meeting all the ...
R M Gibson,D R Waldo
R M Gibson
The United States spent an estimated $247 billion for health care in 1980 (Figure 1), an amount equal to 9.4 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Highlights of the figures that underlie this estimate include the following: Health ca...
D E Yett,W Der,R L Ernst et al.
D E Yett et al.
Many Blue Shield Plans offer participation agreements to physicians that are structurally similar to the participation provisions of Medicaid programs. This paper examines physicians' participation decisions in two such Blue Shield Plans wh...
P McMenamin
P McMenamin
Payments to physicians absorb the second largest share of the health care dollar in the United States. In 1979, the share was 19 percent of the total, or $40.6 billion (Gibson, 1980). The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) alone sp...