Why Are Private Health Insurers Losing Money on Obamacare?

Medicare bad debts are you losing money?

Providers should adopt strategies to make sure that both their claimed and not yet claimed Medicare bad debts will be reimbursed. For periods going forward, providers that are not protected by the bad debt moratorium should make sure they have a bad debt policy in place that complies with CMS's current policies.

Why private finance initiatives are so addictive - and yet offer such poor value for money

Private Money

A random matching environment is constructed where banks mitigate a mismatch between the timing of investment payo¤s and when agents wish to consume. Claims on banks may serve as media of exchange, i.e. private money. Two problems can emerge with private money. First, there may exist welfaredominated equilibria where banks hold low-return assets. Second, private media of exchange may be subject...

Health Information Antitrust Aspects of Health Information Sharing By Public and Private Health Insurers

Burke is Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Cartwright-Smith is Assistant Research Professor, Pereira is Senior Research Professor, and Rosenbaum is Hirsh Professor and Chair, GWU's Department of Health Policy. The authors wish to thank Robert Leibenluft, Esq., for his extremely helpful comment...

Buying best value health care: Evolution of purchasing among Australian private health insurers

Since 1995 Australian health insurers have been able to purchase health services pro-actively through negotiating contracts with hospitals, but little is known about their experience of purchasing. This paper examines the current status of purchasing through interviews with senior managers representing all Australian private health insurers. Many of the traditional tools used to generate compet...