- Title
- Private health insurance: new measures of a complex and changing industry.
- First Author
- Arnett 3d, Ross H
- Date of Pub
- 1984 Winter
- Pages
- 31-42
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- Trapnell, Gordon R
- Abstract
- Private health insurance benefit payments are an integral component of estimates of national health expenditures. Recent analyses indicate that the insurance industry has undergone significant changes since the mid-1970's. As a result of these study findings and corresponding changes to estimating techniques, private health insurance estimates have been revised upward. This has had a major impact on national health expenditure estimates. This article describes the changes that have occurred in the industry, discusses some of the implications of those changes, presents a new methodology to measure private health insurance and the resulting estimate levels, and then examines concepts that underpin these estimates.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Evaluation Studies : Fees and Charges/trends : Health Expenditures/trends : Insurance, Health/classification : Methods : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB85-155075
