Patient Cost Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Hsing-Wen Han (), Hsienming Lien () and Tzu-Ting Yang ()
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Hsing-Wen Han: Department of Accounting, Tamkang University
Tzu-Ting Yang: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, https://www.econ.sinica.edu.tw/

No 16-A011, IEAS Working Paper : academic research from Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract: This paper exploits longitudinal insurance claims data and a cost-sharing subsidy that has exempted copayment and coinsurance of healthcare services for children under the age of 3 in Taiwan. We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate its effect on children’s healthcare utilization. Our results show that cost-sharing subsidy significantly increases the utilization of outpatient care, especially low-value care at high-cost hospitals. In contrast, the utilization of inpatient care is price insensitive. Finally, we find that a lower level of cost-sharing has little impact on children’s health.

Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Working Paper: Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2014)
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