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Not All Insurance Is Equal: Differential Treatment and Health Outcomes by Insurance Coverage Among Nonelderly Adult Patients With Heart Attack

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
BackgroundThe Affordable Care Act has provided health insurance to a large portion of the uninsured in the United States. However, different types of health insurance provide varying amounts of reimbursements to providers, which may lead to different ...
Matthew J. Niedzwiecki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Charakteristics and significance of the sum insured in the Czech Republic [PDF]

open access: yes
The sum insured of insured assets is one of the basic significant characteristics of insurance policy quality and is the ceiling amount of insurance benefit in the case of an insured loss.
Přečková, Lenka
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Moving Forward With Wellness Incentives Under the Affordable Care Act: Lessons From Germany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines how Germany's wellness incentives for the publicly insured helped reduce costs but were less likely to enroll those with low incomes and poor health.

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Impact of Positive Lifestyle Behaviors on Direct Health Care Cost Savings for Low Back Pain

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and health care cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study used data from the Australian Twin Back (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline. Physical activity
Ye Tian   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance Intermediaries

open access: yesCECCAR Business Review
The insurance contract is concluded between the insured and the insurer. However, insurance relations may also involve other persons than the insured and the insurer, for example, the insurance contractor, the beneficiary, the person covered by the ...
Ioana Nely MILITARU
doaj   +1 more source

The slack banker dances: deposit insurance and risk-taking in the banking collapse of the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the effects of deposit insurance on bank behavior using individual bank data from Kansas in the 1920s. Kansas banks were severely stressed by the collapse of agricultural prices in 1920 and resulting increase in farm mortgage defaults.
David C. Wheelock, Subal C. Kumbhaker
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Accuracy of Diagnostic Codes and Algorithms Used to Identify Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Administrative Claims and Electronic Health Records: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This systematic review aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of algorithms used to identify rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis in electronic health records. Methods We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register for Controlled Trials databases and included studies that validated case definitions against a ...
Constanza Saka‐Herrán   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neonatal outcomes after preterm birth by mothers’ health insurance status at birth: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2013
Background Publicly insured women usually have a different demographic background to privately insured women, which is related to poor neonatal outcomes after birth.
Einarsdóttir Kristjana   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Rational Is the Purchase of Life Insurance? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines whether middle age American households purchase adequate amounts of life insurance. The analysis is based on SRI International's 1980, 1982, and 1984 surveys of the financial positions of American households.
Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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