NIH R01 · 2025
Does Health Insurance Promote Health through Providers and Networks?
OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION – Project Summary/Abstract Does Health Insurance Promote Health through Providers and Networks? Through their varying provider networks and coverages, health insurance plans directly and indirectly steer patients toward some clinicians and hospitals and away from others. If providers differ in their quality of care and especially if they provide better care for certain types of patients, such network variation can meaningfully affect health outcomes at the plan level, and not just the provider level. Yet, consumers selecting health plans lack information about which plans will direct them to better providers, obscuring this potentially important channel to…
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