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Deductibles in Health Insurance, Beneficial or Detrimental: A Review Article

BACKGROUND: One of the ways for cost-sharing in health system that has been taken into consideration in recent years in some developed countries is paying deductibles. In case of using deductibles, the insured people more carefully and accurately will use health care services, and potentially many u...

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Autores principales: MIRIAN, Iman, KABIR, Mohammad Javad, BARATI, Omid, KESHAVARZ, Khosro, BASTANI, Peivand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7475628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953673
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KABIR, Mohammad Javad
BARATI, Omid
KESHAVARZ, Khosro
BASTANI, Peivand
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KABIR, Mohammad Javad
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description BACKGROUND: One of the ways for cost-sharing in health system that has been taken into consideration in recent years in some developed countries is paying deductibles. In case of using deductibles, the insured people more carefully and accurately will use health care services, and potentially many unnecessary costs will be avoided. METHODS: To investigate the evidence of deductibles in health systems across the world, a literature review was conducted by searching the materials published in databases including ISI web of science, PubMed, Scopus and also Google scholar search engine from 2000 to 2017. Besides the related websites including WHO and the World Bank were searched. Inclusion criteria were studies carried out only in health insurance, English language, and the year of the study. RESULTS: The most important positive impacts of deductibles were decrease in utilization of different services, high profitability for the young and healthy people, lower health benefit claims by the insured people, and increase in financial profitability of health insurance organization. Besides, the most negative impacts increase in out of pocket burdens and also higher hospitalization over time. CONCLUSION: Deductible plans have their own advantages and disadvantages for the insured and insurance organizations in terms of financial dimensions as well as utilization of health services, and explicitly none of these plans can be flawless. Given the increasing costs of health systems and the potential moral hazard of insured persons, it seems these systems sooner or later should inevitably move towards new cost-sharing plans, including deductibles.
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spelling pubmed-74756282020-09-18 Deductibles in Health Insurance, Beneficial or Detrimental: A Review Article MIRIAN, Iman KABIR, Mohammad Javad BARATI, Omid KESHAVARZ, Khosro BASTANI, Peivand Iran J Public Health Review Article BACKGROUND: One of the ways for cost-sharing in health system that has been taken into consideration in recent years in some developed countries is paying deductibles. In case of using deductibles, the insured people more carefully and accurately will use health care services, and potentially many unnecessary costs will be avoided. METHODS: To investigate the evidence of deductibles in health systems across the world, a literature review was conducted by searching the materials published in databases including ISI web of science, PubMed, Scopus and also Google scholar search engine from 2000 to 2017. Besides the related websites including WHO and the World Bank were searched. Inclusion criteria were studies carried out only in health insurance, English language, and the year of the study. RESULTS: The most important positive impacts of deductibles were decrease in utilization of different services, high profitability for the young and healthy people, lower health benefit claims by the insured people, and increase in financial profitability of health insurance organization. Besides, the most negative impacts increase in out of pocket burdens and also higher hospitalization over time. CONCLUSION: Deductible plans have their own advantages and disadvantages for the insured and insurance organizations in terms of financial dimensions as well as utilization of health services, and explicitly none of these plans can be flawless. Given the increasing costs of health systems and the potential moral hazard of insured persons, it seems these systems sooner or later should inevitably move towards new cost-sharing plans, including deductibles. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7475628/ /pubmed/32953673 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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BARATI, Omid
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BASTANI, Peivand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7475628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953673
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