全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Risk Corridors and Reinsurance in Health Insurance Marketplaces: Insurance for Insurers

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20515
来源ID	Working Paper 20515
	Risk Corridors and Reinsurance in Health Insurance Marketplaces: Insurance for Insurers
	Timothy J. Layton; Thomas G. McGuire; Anna D. Sinaiko
发表日期	2014-09-18
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	In order to encourage entry and lower prices, most regulated markets for health insurance include policies that seek to reduce the uncertainty faced by insurers. In addition to risk adjustment of premiums paid to plans, the Health Insurance Marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act implement reinsurance and risk corridors. Reinsurance limits insurer costs associated with specific individuals, while risk corridors protect against aggregate losses. Both tighten the insurer's distribution of expected costs. This paper considers the economic costs and consequences of reinsurance and risk corridors. Drawing a parallel to individual insurance principles first described by Arrow (1963) and Zeckhauser (1970), we first discuss the optimal insurance policy for insurers. Then, we simulate the insurer's cost distribution under reinsurance and risk corridors using health care utilization data for a group of individuals likely to enroll in Marketplace plans from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. We compare reinsurance and risk corridors in terms of insurer risk reduction and incentives for cost containment, finding that one-sided risk corridors achieve more risk reduction for a given level of cost containment incentives than both reinsurance and two-sided risk corridors. We also find that the ACA policies being implemented in the Marketplaces (a mix of reinsurance and two-sided risk corridor policies) substantially limit insurer risk but that they are outperformed by a simpler one-sided risk corridor policy according to our measures of insurer risk and incentives.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20515
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578187
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Timothy J. Layton,Thomas G. McGuire,Anna D. Sinaiko. Risk Corridors and Reinsurance in Health Insurance Marketplaces: Insurance for Insurers. 2014.