The United Mine Workers?? Health Plan An Analysis of the Cost-Sharing Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9104618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard M Scheffler (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-254 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-198403000-00008 |
| PMID | 6700288 |
| OpenAlex | W2058330269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article reports on the introduction of a cost-sharing health care plan to the United Mine Workers. The authors discuss the data base and analyze the impact of the program on the use of health care, the probability of a hospital admission, hospital expenditures and length of stay, the demand for physician services, and the probability of seeing a physician. Hospital admissions and hospital expenditures per stay decreased, as did the probability of seeing a physician. It is suggested that these behavioral adjustments to cost sharing are fairly rapid and long lasting
Actuarial science · Business · Cost sharing · Economics · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Health plan · Medical emergency · Plan (archaeology) · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1989 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |