This paper empirically studies two issues in health insurance provision for wage and salary workers in Argentina and their utilization of health services: (1) the moral hazard problem; and (2) the role of prices in utilization. I examine the relationship between insurance and utilization both by estimating how insurance type affects utilization and by parameterizing characteristics of seven maj...

OBJECTIVES Because of high purchase costs of newer vaccines, financial risk to private vaccination providers has increased. We assessed among pediatricians and family physicians satisfaction with insurance payment for vaccine purchase and administration by payer type, the proportion who have considered discontinuing provision of all childhood vaccines for financial reasons, and strategies used ...

1 Does Type Health Insurance Matter? Since most individuals do not possess adequate knowledge to diagnose and treat their own health problems, they seek advice from physicians who act as their agents. These agents are expected to provide the necessary diagnosis and care. To pay for this care, the average individual purchases health insurance as an important guarantee against medical care's high...

This study was performed to clarify the characteristics of multiple channels for occupational health services (OHS) to small-scale enterprises (SSEs) in Japan employing less than 50 workers by reviewing relevant research papers. OHS were provided to SSEs by both government organizations and non-government organizations. Government organizations included the Japanese Industrial Safety & Health A...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

.IT THE ENI> OF 1968, private health insurance organizations gave some protection against hospital costs to an estimated 152 million persons in the ITnited States, or 77 percent, of the civilian population. Some protect,ion against surgical costs was given to 74 percent, of t,lie population and some coverage of in-hospital physician visits to 6.5 percent of the population. For services or t,ype...

Confusion over which physicians, facilities, and pharmacies are in insurance companies' networks has become an issue among enrollees in marketplace plans under health care reform, Medicare Advantage plans, and even accountable care organizations.

Ten years after the passage of the HMO Act, health maintenance organizations represent a small proportion of employee health plans; benefits are more comprehensive and worker premiums higher than for traditional insurance, but other variables make comparisons difficult.

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...