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Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly

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Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin
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Abstract
In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public employees in California. We find that physician visits and prescription drug usage have elasticities that are similar to those of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE). Unlike the HIE, however, we find substantial "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization. The savings from increased cost sharing accrue mostly to the supplemental insurer, while the costs of increased hospitalization accrue mostly to Medicare.
Date issued
2010-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61694
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Journal
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Citation
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. 2010. "Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly." American Economic Review, 100(1): 193–213. © 2010 AEA
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0002-8282

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