New Health Insurance Study Results Reported from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (The availability and marginal costs of dependent…

New Health Insurance Study Results Reported from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (The availability and marginal costs of dependent employer-sponsored health insurance)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Health Insurance have been published. According to news reporting originating in Rockville, Maryland, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "In this study, we examine differences by firm size in the availability of dependent coverage and the incremental cost of such coverage."

Financial support for this research came from National Institute for Health Care Reform (see also Health Insurance).

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, "We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey -Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) to showthat among employees eligible for single coverage, dependent coverage was almost always available for employees in large firms (100 or more employees) but not in smaller firms, particularly those with fewer than 10 employees. In addition, when dependent coverage was available, eligible employees in smaller firms were more likely than employees in large firms to face two situations that represented the extremes of the incremental cost distribution: (1) they paid nothing for single or family coverage or (2) they paid nothing for single coverage but faced a high contribution for family coverage."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "These results suggest that firm size may be an important factor in policy assessments, such as analyses of the financial implications for families excluded from subsidized Marketplace coverage due to affordable offers of single coverage or of potential rollbacks to public coverage for children."

For more information on this research see: The availability and marginal costs of dependent employer-sponsored health insurance. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2017;17(2):251-260. International Journal of Health Economics and Management can be contacted at: Springer, 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, USA.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting G.E. Miller, AHRQ, Center Financing Access & Cost Trends, Div Res & Modeling, Rockville, MD 20857, United States. Additional authors for this research include J. Vistnes, M. Buettgens and L. Dubay.

Keywords for this news article include: Rockville, Maryland, United States, North and Central America, Health Insurance, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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