Health insurance in Germany is compulsory, with options for both public (GKV) and private (PKV) coverage, each catering to different needs and financial capacities. Eligibility and enrollment processes for health insurance vary, and understanding these can ensure timely and correct access to healthca...
Further evidence on public versus private administration of health insuranceThe purpose of this paper is to consider the efficiency question in the context of a public, nonprofit organization with a statutory monopoly in the provision of universal, comprehensive health insurance, and a mandate to ...
In considering the pending reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), some have recommended that Congress use federal funds to subsidize purchasing private health insurance rather than expanding public health insurance, like Medicaid or SCHIP. Some may reflexively assume tha...
This paper examines the determinants of hospital stay intensity, the decision to seek hospital care as a public or private patient and the decision to purchase private hospital insurance. We describe a theoretical model to motivate the simultaneous nature of these decisions. For the empirical analysis...
Germany, for instance, there are currently 96 statutory (i.e., public) health insurances covering approximately 90% of the population (GKV Spitzenverband2023). In addition, our study considers two types of private providers of PHR apps that represent opposite ends of the maturity spectrum: big...
All these changes reflect care provided by public resources. In the private sector, there was a decrease in direct payments and payments through company-paid health insurance and an increase in payments through self-paid health insurance... WOD Carvalho,Chester Luiz Galvo Cesar,L Carandina,... ...
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German acute care hospitalsThis paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI...
Public vs. private marketplaces Either the federal government or state governments manage the public medical insurance marketplace, while private companies run private exchanges. While government exchanges are usually limited to qualified health plans (i.e. ACA-compliant plans), private ...
Health insurance in Germany is compulsory, with options for both public (GKV) and private (PKV) coverage, each catering to different needs and financial capacities. Eligibility and enrollment processes for health insurance vary, and understanding these can ensure timely and correct access to healthca...