Do For-profit health plans restrict access to high-cost procedures? - 24/08/11
Abstract |
Question |
Do for-profit health plans restrict access to high-cost procedures compared with not-for-profit health plans?
Study design |
Cohort study.
Main results |
In unadjusted analyses, for-profit health plan beneficiaries had higher rates of all high-cost procedures than not-for-profit health plan beneficiaries; the difference was significant for 4 out of 12 procedures (see Table 1). Rates of usage remained higher in for-profit plans after adjustment for participants’ sociodemographic factors, county of residence, and health plan characteristics (see Table 1).
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Authors’ conclusions |
There is no evidence that for-profit heath plan beneficiaries are less likely to receive high-cost procedures than not-for-profit health plan beneficiaries.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Health care surveys, Health insurance, Medicare, Health economics, Cohort study
Plan
Abstracted from: Schneider EC, Zaslavsky AM, Epstein AM. Use of high-cost operative procedures by medicare beneficiaries enrolled in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans. N Engl J Med 2004; 350: 143–150. |
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