The Impact of Insurance on HIV Testing

Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner and Yanyu Wu
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Zachary Wagner: School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Yanyu Wu: Precision Health Economics

American Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 1, issue 4, 515-536

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of health insurance on HIV testing rates among the US general population using nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) for the years 1993 to 2003. We estimate recursive bivariate probit models with insurance coverage and HIV testing as the dependent variables. We use changes in Medicaid eligibility and distribution of firm size over time within a state as instruments for insurance coverage. The results suggest that (1) insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates, (2) insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates more among the high-risk population, and (3) the effects of insurance coverage on HIV testing for high-risk populations increased over time.

Keywords: American; health; health economics; health policy; incentives; health behaviors; health care; HIV; HIV testing; insurance coverage; Medicaid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I13 I14 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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