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...
doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7254.137Allison ShortenBMJ
Preliminary research suggests that telehealth attendance among youths with public insurance is lower than among privately insured youths. A study of psychiatric intensive outpatient services that transitioned to telehealth at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic found that adolescents’ attendance was higher...
In the Italian NHS, over the last decades, a growing share of population opted for a Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) in order to privately access healthcare services and bypass the increasingly long waiting times of the public system. The study analyses whether and to what extent the presence...
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...
How Much Does Private Health Insurance Cost? While many people are scared by the prospect of purchasing their own insurance versus enrolling in an employer-sponsored plan, some studies have shown that it can end up being more affordable than employer-sponsored plans. ...
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 ...
The aim of the present study was to describe and compare the operation and performance of private for-profit (PFP) and public hospitals in Greece, focusing on differences in nurse staffing rates, average lengths of stay (ALoS), and Social Health Insurance (SHI) payments for hospital care per...
Medicare versus Private Health Insurance : The Cost of AdministrationMedicare versus Private Health Insurance : The Cost of AdministrationGiven the importance of the insurance sector, its potential for growth, rapidly emerging trends within the sector including the trend towards liberalization of insurance...
“a type of insurance whereby a private organization (the insurer) pays the medical costs of the insured if the insured becomes sick due to covered causes, or accidents. private health insurances may be complements or substitutes of public health insurance”. the cross-sectional sample has 18,...