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• Risk Adjustment Models

  September 9, 2010 in Econometrics

  Risk adjustment is important for many aspects of health care.  Medicare uses risk adjustment to modify payments to Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans based on the health of the beneficiaries they cover.  Private insurance companies can use risk adjustment to fine-tune capitation payments to physicians or determine a potential enrollee’s premium.  Providers can use risk [...]

• Cavalacade of Risk

  September 8, 2010 in Carnivals

  The 113rd edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at David Williams’ Health Business Blog.

• Wednesday Links

  September 8, 2010 in Current Events

  Bribery=FFS?
  Retiree insurance program.
  Cost shifting.
  A real clunker.
  “Poverty is a business.”
  Unintended consequences of alcohol and cigarette taxes.
  600.

• International Healthcare Models: Australia

  September 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Today I’ll be talking about healthcare in Australia.  Australia a rich country with 21.2 million residents, has the sixth highest life expectancy of any country in the world.  The review of the Australian healthcare system is based on the Australia’s Health 2008 report.  Unless otherwise noted, all dollar figures reference are in Australian dollars ($1 [...]

• Labor Day Post II: Health Insurance Cost Shifting

  September 6, 2010 in Health Insurance

  Sticky wages is the concept that few employees will agree to a nominal decrease in wages even if there is a decrease in productivity.  However, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that although nominal wages may not be decreasing, the amount of money workers are paying for health insurance is rising quickly (full report).
  “Workers on average [...]