Risk Segmentation and Risk Adjustment in Health Reform.

Summarizes principles of risk, risk segmentation, and risk adjustment in health insurance. Risk segmentation is the concentration of healthier and sicker persons in different health care plans. Risk adjustment entails correcting for risk segmentation by shifting money from plans with healthier enrol...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1996.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Summarizes principles of risk, risk segmentation, and risk adjustment in health insurance. Risk segmentation is the concentration of healthier and sicker persons in different health care plans. Risk adjustment entails correcting for risk segmentation by shifting money from plans with healthier enrollees to those with sicker enrollees.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
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