More than 35.6 million children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in December 2016— accounting for just over half of total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment.1 Medicaid and CHIP are particularly important in rural areas where 77.1 percent of children in households with income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) are covered by public insurance...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has been praised and criticized for asserting federal authority to regulate health insurance. We review the history of federalism and insurance regulation and find that HIPAA is less of a departure from traditional federal authority than it is an application of existing tools to meet evolving health policy goals. This inter...

Research shows consolidation in the private health insurance industry leads to premium increases, even though insurers with larger local market shares generally obtain lower prices from health care providers. Additional research is needed to understand how to protect against harms and unlock benefits from scale. Data on enrollment, premiums, and costs of commercial health insurance--by insurer,...

Using a local randomized experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in Disability Insurance (DI) policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We further show t...

Background The preferences of Iranians concerning the attributes of health insurance benefit packages are not well studied. This study aimed to elicit health insurance preferences among insured people in Iran during 2016.   Methods A mixed method...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Out of Pocket Expenditure has always been a primary means financing health care service in Nepal. National Health Insurance Scheme ensures universal coverage by addressing the unregulated out-of-pocket spending and providing quality service.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A descriptive c...

this paper aims to estimate a model of demand for health insurance and medical care in iran in the presence of the heterogeneous and latent health status of individual; moreover it tests the asymmetry of information in the health insurance industry of iran. our dataset consists of whole family budget survey of 2006. the parameters of model are estimated by g.m.m method and the model used in thi...