Reports from Baylor University Provide New Insights into Economic Policy (Public Spillovers From Private Insurance Contracting: Physician Responses To Managed Care)

2019 NOV 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Economics - Economic Policy. According to news reporting originating from Waco, Texas, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Managed care is rebounding as more emphasis is placed on cost containment.”

Financial support for this research came from Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Baylor University, “These efforts may benefit consumers but challenge providers; however, empirical evidence on how supply-side managed care influences physicians is incomplete. We leverage a quasi-experiment3 in which a commercial insurer imposed a new contract regime on behavioral health providers in response to recent policy shifts.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We demonstrate spillovers in the form of negative effects on local physician supply and positive effects on Medicare and Medicaid participation in areas where the insurer has market power Commercially insured patients are also not obviously harmed but receive less intense services in some settings.”

For more information on this research see: Public Spillovers From Private Insurance Contracting: Physician Responses To Managed Care. American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2019;11(4):375-403. American Economic Journal Economic Policy can be contacted at: Amer Economic Assoc, 2014 Broadway, Ste 305, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.R. Richards, Baylor University, Dept. of Economics, One Bear Pl 98003, Off 410-37, Waco, TX 76798, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20170441. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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