기사
Is Fragmented Financing Bad for Your Health?
- 개인저자
- Steven D. Pizer
- 수록페이지
- 109-122 p.
- 발행일자
- 2011.06.10
- 출판사
- Blue Cross Association
초록
Americans finance health care through a variety of private insurance plans and public programs. This organizational fragmentation could threaten continuity of care and adversely affect outcomes. Using a large sample of veterans who were eligible for mixtures of Veterans Health Administration- and Medicare-financed care, we estimate a system of equations to account for simultaneity in the determination of financing configuration and the probability of hospitalization for an ambulatory care sensitive condition. We find that a change of one standard deviation in financing fragmentation increases the risk of an adverse outcome by one-fifth.