TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of health plan report cards on managed care enrollment
AU - Scanlon, Dennis P.
AU - Chernew, Michael
AU - McLaughlin, Catherine
AU - Solon, Gary
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Grant No. 1-R01-HS10050. We are grateful to Tom Cragg and Bruce Bradley for providing the data for this study. We also acknowledge comments received from Will Manning, Doug Staiger, Joe Newhouse, Kathleen Carey, Katherine Harris, Gautam Gowrisankaran, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago, Harvard Medical School, MIT, the Pennsylvania State University, the NBER, the Association of Health Services Research, and the 11th Annual Health Economics Meeting sponsored by the Management Science Group of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Finally, we appreciate the capable programming assistance of Joe Vasey.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - How does the release of health plan performance ratings influence employee health plan choice? A natural experiment at General Motors (GM) Corporation provides valuable evidence on this question. During the 1997 open enrollment period, GM disseminated a health plan report card for the first time. By comparing 1996 and 1997 enrollment patterns, our analysis estimates the impact of the report card information while accounting for fixed, unobserved plan traits. Results indicate that employees are less likely to enroll in plans requiring relatively high out-of-pocket contributions. Results with respect to report card ratings suggest that individuals avoid health plans with many below average ratings.
AB - How does the release of health plan performance ratings influence employee health plan choice? A natural experiment at General Motors (GM) Corporation provides valuable evidence on this question. During the 1997 open enrollment period, GM disseminated a health plan report card for the first time. By comparing 1996 and 1997 enrollment patterns, our analysis estimates the impact of the report card information while accounting for fixed, unobserved plan traits. Results indicate that employees are less likely to enroll in plans requiring relatively high out-of-pocket contributions. Results with respect to report card ratings suggest that individuals avoid health plans with many below average ratings.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-6296(01)00111-4
DO - 10.1016/S0167-6296(01)00111-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 11845924
AN - SCOPUS:0036154823
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 21
SP - 19
EP - 41
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 1
ER -
