Assessment of cost sharing in the Pima County Marketplace

Highlights • Premium competition in the Pima County Marketplace is intense for presumed healthy individuals under 30 years of age. • Plans with low cost sharing tend to have higher premiums and vice versa. • Evaluating health plans on premium alone is insufficient. • Understanding cost-sharing is vi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Health policy (Amsterdam) 2017-01, Vol.121 (1), p.50-57
Hauptverfasser:	Jennings, Nicholas B, Eng, Howard J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACA Age Factors Arizona Competition Consumers Cost sharing Cost Sharing - economics Coverage Deductibles and Coinsurance - economics Diabetes Drugs Economic Competition - economics Enrollments Health administration Health care expenditures Health care industry Health insurance Health Insurance Exchanges - economics Health services Hepatitis Hepatitis C Humans Insurance Insurance, Health - economics Internal Medicine Management Marketplace Markets Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - legislation & jurisprudence Patients Pregnancy Premiums Ratings & rankings Transparency Type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Zusammenfassung:	Highlights • Premium competition in the Pima County Marketplace is intense for presumed healthy individuals under 30 years of age. • Plans with low cost sharing tend to have higher premiums and vice versa. • Evaluating health plans on premium alone is insufficient. • Understanding cost-sharing is vital to effectively evaluating an insurance plan on a marketplace. • Web tools could provide consumers information on physician networks, medication coverage, and costs.
ISSN:	0168-8510 1872-6054
DOI:	10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.10.011