Advice from the health insurer as a channelling strategy: a natural experiment at a Dutch health insurance company
Abstract Background In a health care system based on managed competition it is important that health insurers are able to channel their enrolees to preferred care providers. However, enrolees are often very negative about financial incentives and any limitations in their choice of care provider. Therefore, a Dutch health insurance company conducted an experiment to study the effectiveness of a new method of channelling their enrolees. This method entails giving enrolees advise on which physiotherapists to choose when they call customer service. Offering this advice as an extra service is suppo... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMC Health Services Research, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018) |
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BMC
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Schlagwörter: | Health insurance / Channelling / Preferred providers / Physiotherapists / Managed care / Public aspects of medicine / RA1-1270 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26625905 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3624-6 |