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Research article summary:
Testing the effect of quality reports on the health plan choices of Medicare beneficiaries.
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This article describes a laboratory experiment that used a convenience sample of 225 Medicare beneficiaries to test the effects of comparative quality information on plan choice. Providing information about quality did not significantly influence the ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002-2003 Winter
in Journal: Inquiry
(Language : eng)
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2002-2003 Winter;39(4):355-71
Testing the effect of quality reports on the health plan choices of Medicare beneficiaries.
Uhrig JD, Short PF
Division of Health Economics Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA.
This article describes a laboratory experiment that used a convenience sample of 225 Medicare beneficiaries to test the effects of comparative quality information on plan choice. Providing information about quality did not significantly influence the choice between Original Medicare and a health maintenance organization (HMO), but did affect the choice of HMO. Results from this experiment suggest that information about plan quality may not be effective in encouraging beneficiaries to leave Original Medicare and join HMOs that are rated high in quality. Furthermore, beneficiaries choosing among HMOs were not inclined to select a low-cost HMO, even when it was rated higher in quality. Implications for policy are discussed.
PMID : 12638711 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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Full Author Information
| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Jennifer D | Uhrig | JD |
| Pamela Farley | Short | PF |
Affiliation: Division of Health Economics Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA.
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Category links from this article:- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Consumer Satisfaction - economics, statistics & numerical data
- Decision Making
- Fee-for-Service Plans - standards, utilization
- Female
- Health Maintenance Organizations - standards, utilization
- Health Services Research
- Humans
- Information Dissemination
- Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Medicare Part B - organization & administration, standards
- Pennsylvania
- Probability
- Quality Indicators, Health Care
- United States
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