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Measuring Consumer Valuation of Limited Provider Networks

Keith Matthew Marzilli EricsonAmanda Starc

出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=noR7rgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

We measure provider coverage networks for plans on the Massachusetts health insurance exchange using a two measures: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the network. The two measures are highly correlated, and show a wide range of networks available to consumers. We then estimate consumer willingness-to-pay for network breadth, which varies by age. 60-year-olds value the broadest network approximately $1200-1400/year more than the narrowest network, while 30-year-olds value it about half as much. Consumers place additional value on star hospitals, and there is significant geographic heterogeneity in the value of network breadth.