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PubMed2003

Determinants of the use of health plan information in formulating health plan selection decisions.

This study seeks to identify the impact of information on employees' health plan selection decision-making. Surveys were administered to 1,722 Federal employees working in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). This study focuses on the enrollees' access to and use of three types of health plan information: print information issued by the Federal government (in particular, The Guide to Federal Employees Health Benefit Plans), print information issued by the health plans, and web-based information. Literature from health plans was utilized to a greater degree than The Guide. Web-based information was the least accessed and used. Major positive predictors of the use of health plan information from any source were: race, time in Federal employment, whether the employee was considering a plan change, employees with less time in current plan, employees who search for information to make decisions, and spouses' health status. Younger and more-educated employees were more likely to access web-based information. Implications for management, policy, and future research are discussed.

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PubMed1997

The use of mapping in public health and planning health services.

The availability of relatively inexpensive, user-friendly geographical information systems, with a steadily extending range of analytic and other facilities, provides a powerful tool for the analysis and display of the increasing number of health-related data sets, and for their greater accessibility. Relationships between several sets of variables can become immediately apparent from a map in a way that is much more difficult to comprehend from a table or description. It is also easy to define ad hoc areas, such as the area adjacent to a possible toxic point source or to a main road, in terms of unit postcodes and Census output areas, to determine standardized rates for mortality and hospital admissions. Apart from the geographical information system itself, the basic requirements are access to relevant data sets including Census data, and to the central postcode directory, which provides grid references for unit postcodes and permits matching of postcoded health events to Census output areas.

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[Nursing and planning in health: management report as an instrument of health planning].

The involvement of the future nurse in the construction of the Management Report of the Actions of Health of a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul was the main objective of this study. The methodological strategy consisted of meetings with coordinators and technicians responsible for the sanitary units, the General Director Group and planning team of the health of the city, participation in the collection of data and elaboration of the related report. The literature revision contemplated: politics of health, a management report as an instrument of health planning, continued education and the role of the nurse on SUS improvement. This work contributed to the improvement of the report of health management, with sights to the planning and implementation of resolute and effective actions.

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On being new to an insurance plan: health care use associated with the first years in a health insurance plan.

BACKGROUND: We wanted to compare health care utilization and costs in the first year of being in a health insurance plan with those of subsequent years. METHODS: We used claims data from an independent practitioner association (IPA)-style managed care organization in the Rochester, NY, metropolitan area from 1996 through 1999. Cross-sectional and panel analyses of up to 4 years of claims data were conducted, involving 335,547 adult patients assigned to the panels of 687 primary care physicians (internists and family physicians). Multivariate analyses, adjusting for age, sex, case mix, and socioeconomic status derived from ZIP codes, examined the relationship between the first year of health insurance and Papanicolaou tests, mammograms in women older than 40 years, physician use, avoidable hospitalization, and expenditures. RESULTS: After multivariate adjustment, the first year of insurance was associated with a higher risk of not getting a mammogram, a higher risk of avoidable hospitalization, greater likelihood of visiting a physician, and higher expenditures, especially for testing. There was no relationship, however, between Papanicolaou test compliance and year of enrollment. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest there might be adverse clinical and financial implications associated with changing insurance.

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PubMed2003

The association between health risk status and health care costs among the membership of an Australian health plan.

Health promotion in Australia has developed into an accepted strategy for solving public health problems and promoting the health of its citizens. However, there are few evidence-based research studies in Australia that measure health risk status or track health changes over time with defined cost outcome measures. Those individuals with more high-risk lifestyle behaviors have been associated with higher costs compared with those with low-risk behaviors. Although intuitively it was believed that the health promotion programs had a positive impact on health behaviors and consequently on health care costs, the relationship between health risk status and health care costs had yet to be tested in the Australian population. Consequently, a verification study was initiated by the Australian Health Management Group (AHMG) to confirm that those relationships between health risks and medical costs that had been published would also hold in the Australian population using Australian private health care costs as the outcome measure. Eight health risks were defined using a Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) to determine the health risk status of participants. Consistent with previous studies, low-risk participants were associated with the lowest health care costs (377 Australian dollars) compared with medium- (484 Australian dollars) or high-risk (661 Australian dollars) participants and non-participants (438 Australian dollars). If the health care costs of those at low risk were considered as the baseline costs, excess health care costs associated with excess health risks in this population were calculated at 13.5% of total expenditures. Health risk reduction and low-risk maintenance can provide important strategies for improving/maintaining the health and well-being of the membership and for potential savings in health care costs.

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PubMed2000

Providing consumers with information about the quality of health plans: the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans demonstration in Washington State.

BACKGROUND: In 1995 the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research began a five-year project, Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS), to create instruments to collect data from consumers about their health care experiences, to develop sophisticated methods to convey these data to consumers, and to evaluate the value of these data to consumers who are selecting health plans. Results were obtained from one of the first CAHPS demonstration sites, the Washington State Health Care Authority. METHODS: The survey was distributed in May-June 1997 to 15,885 enrollees in 20 health plans; 8,204 (51.6%) surveys were completed. Survey results were summarized in a report that described the performance of plans, which was distributed to 97,000 enrollees, and reactions to the report were obtained from more than 1,500 individuals. RESULTS: Nearly everyone who was mailed the report said they saw it. A large proportion said they read most or all of it, and most thought the report was easy to understand, contained information needed to rate plans, and was helpful to learning about differences between plans. Those who used the CAHPS performance report were more likely to switch plans and to report that they were confident they had selected the best plan for their situation. DISCUSSION: The study was unique in that it attempted to evaluate whether employees read the performance report, how they reacted to it, and whether reading it influenced their decision to switch plans or their confidence that they had selected a suitable plan. Choosing a new plan probably stimulated more intense scrutiny of the report than not anticipating switching.

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