Assessing Incentives for Adverse Selection in Health Plan Payment Systems

Timothy J. Layton, Randall P. Ellis, Thomas G. McGuire

NBER Working Paper No. 21531
Issued in September 2015

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Research for this paper was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH094290) and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The views expressed here are the authors’ own and not necessarily those of the Foundation’s officers, directors or staff. In addition, Layton was supported by NIMH T32 019733. We are grateful to Konstantin Beck, David Cutler, Mike Geruso, Laura Hatfield, Lukas Kauer, Albert Ma, Joe Newhouse, Sherri Rose, Christian Schmid, Mark Shepard, Richard van Kleef, Wenjia Zhu, and participants at the BU-Harvard-MIT Seminar and the NBER Summer Institute for comments on a previous version. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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