Estimating Self-Selection in Medicare Advantage
Using linked MA and commercial insurance claims, we examine who selects into MA after Medicare’s Initial Enrollment Eligibility Period and the resulting impact on MA enrollees’ health care utilization and costs.
Team: Moiz Bhai
Update: HCEO Working Paper 2024-009
Strategic Cross Subsidization in Healthcare Capitation Programs: Evidence from Medicare Advantage
This study exploits an exogenous change on Medicare Advantage (MA) capitation payments to examine whether MA plans’ cause high-risk patients to cross-subsidize low-risk patients by reallocating capitation payments disproportionately to benefits with greater appeal to healthy patients.
Team: Zhaowei She, Turgay Ayer, and Bilal Gokpinar
Update: Finalist for 2023 Pierskalla Award
Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse Midwife Scope of Practice (SOP)
Many papers find expanding SOP is associated with improved endpoint outcomes, but what is the mechanism? This series of studies strive to unpack the black-box of “how” and “why” using detailed micro-level claims data.
Team: Moiz Bhai, Mitch Mitchell, Candice Filar (PhD student), Alexa Wallace (PhD student), and Mary Motolenich (PhD student)
Publications:
A. Wallace, M. Bhai, D.R. Hughes. “The Effect of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws on Diabetic Health Care Costs,” Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming
D.R. Hughes, C. Filar, D.T. Mitchell. 2022. “Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice and the Prevention of Foot Complications in Rural Diabetes Patients,” Journal of Rural Health, 38(4): 994-998
When Information Bridges the Care Gap: Online Physician Ratings and Reduced Healthcare Disruptions
We combine medical insurance claims with web-scraped physician review data to explore whether online review platforms reduce medical care interruptions for patients seeking a new physician because of physician retirement.
Team: Michael E. Kummer, Ulrich Laitenberger, Cyrus Rich (PhD Student), and Turgay Ayer
Notes: Previously distributed as ZEW Discussion Paper 21-075
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