A Reminder to Pay Less for Healthcare: take-up of Increased Reimbursement in a large-scale randomized field experiment

Raf Van Gastel, Tim Goedemé, Julie Janssens, Eva Lefevere and Rik Lemkens

No 1712, Working Papers from Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp

Abstract: We evaluate how a simple letter and flyer sent to a low-income group stimulates the participation in a beneficial health insurance plan. Using a large-scale randomized field experiment we study the effect of contacting potential beneficiaries on the take-up of the Increased Reimbursement (IR) for healthcare in Belgium. We find a fourfold increase in the take-up of IR, with large differences across geographic areas. The group that remains without IR is, on average, less vulnerable than the group that takes up IR in response to the letter. As such, the mailing arguably succeeds in reaching out to the target population.

Keywords: accessible health care; field experiment; Increased Reimbursement; Nudging; RCT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I10 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hea and nep-ias
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