Health Insurer Market Concentration, Bargaining Power and Insurance Premiums
The health insurance industry is highly concentrated, and health insurance premiums are high and rising rapidly. Policymakers have focused on the possible link between the two, leading to Affordable Care Act provisions to increase insurer competition. While market power may enable insurers to include higher profit margins in their premiums, it may also result in stronger bargaining leverage with hospitals to negotiate lower payment rates to partially offset these higher premiums.
In this Webinar Dr. Erin Trish presents the results of her research in this important area. Dr. Trish is a postdoctoral fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California Los Angeles. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in 2013 with a doctorate in Health Policy and Economics. Her research focuses on private health insurance markets in the US, including how the Affordable Care Act may affect how these markets function.
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Posted on Aug 12, 2016