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author = "Kapur, Kanika"
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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Author(s) : Fairlie, Robert W. , Kapur, Kanika , Gates, Susan
Description : The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of entrepreneurship lock by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the interac...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

The role of product design in consumers' choices in the individual insurance market

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Marquis, M. Susan , Beeuwkes Buntin, Melinda , Escarce, José J.
Description : Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan. Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative data from the three largest nongroup insurers in California and survey data abo...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Where do the sick go? Health insurance and employment in small and large firms

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Escarce, José J. , Marquis, M. Susan , Simon, Kosali I.
Description : Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to maintain a workforce with low expected health costs. In addition, workers with high...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

The impact of regulation and litigation on small business and entrepreneurship

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Dixon, Lloyd , Gates, Susan M. , Seabury, Seth A. , Talley, Eric
Description : This working paper surveys existing research and the general state of knowledge on the impact of regulation and legislation on small business. It focuses on laws and regulations in four key regulatory areas: corporate securities, environmental protection, employment, and health insurance. In each of...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Health savings accounts for small businesses and entrepreneurs : shopping, take-Up and implementation challenges

Author(s) : Gates, Susan M. , Karaca-Mandic, Pinar , Burgdorf, James R. , Kapur, Kanika
Description : A combination of high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) holds promise for expanding health insurance for small firms. We provide information on HSA take-up and shopping behavior from a 2008 survey of female small business owners, revealing that the HSA marketplace ca...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Medical care expenditures under gatekeeper and point-of-service arrangements

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Escarce, José J. , Joyce, Geoffrey F. , Van Vorst, Krista A.
Description : OBJECTIVE: To compare expenditures for medical care in a closed-panel gatekeeper HMO and an open-panel point-of-service (POS) plan that share the same provider network. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING: The two study HMOs are distinct product lines of a single managed care organization; both plans are comm...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Medicare calibration of the clinically detailed risk information system for cost

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Tseng, Chien-Wen , Rastegar, Afshin , Carter, Grace , Keeler, Emmett
Description : The clinically detailed risk information system for cost (CD-RISC) contains definitions for several hundred severity-adjusted conditions that can be used to predict future health care costs. We develop a prospective Medicare CD-RISC model using a 5-percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries and data t...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Visits to primary care physicians and to specialists under gatekeeper and point-of-service arrangements

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Joyce, Geoffrey F. , Escarce, José J. , Van Vorst, Krista A.
Description : Objective: To assess utilization of ambulatory visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) and to specialists in 2 different managed care models: a closed panel gatekeeper health maintenance organization (HMO) and an open panel point-of-service HMO. Study Design: Retrospective study of patients enrolle...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Using contingent choice methods to assess consumer preferences about health plan design

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Marquis, M. Susan , Buntin, Melinda J. Beeuwkes , Yegian, Jill M.
Description : American insurers are designing products to contain healthcare costs by making consumers financially responsible for their choices. Little is known about how consumers will view these new designs. Our objective is to examine consumer preferences for selected benefit designs. Methods: We used the con...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English

Expenditures for physician services under alternative models of managed care

Author(s) : Kapur, Kanika , Joyce, Geoffrey F. , Van Vorst, Krista A. , Escarce, José J.
Description : This study compares expenditures for physician services in a closed panel gatekeeper health maintenance organization (HMO) and an open panel point of service HMO that share the same physician network. The study uses administrative files of the two study HMOs for 1994-1995 to assess differences in sp...
Repository : research_online@UCD
Language(s) : English
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Found 69 documents, displaying page 5 of 7