Melnick Glenn A, Fonkych Katya
University of Southern California (USC), Santa Monica, California, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2008 Mar-Apr;27(2):w116-22. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.w116. Epub 2008 Feb 5.
Although the health care pricing literature has grown substantially in recent years, there has been little empirical analysis of how hospital pricing behavior affects the uninsured. We use unique data from California to compare actual prices paid by uninsured patients with prices paid by commercial and Medicare patients. We find that uninsured patients pay prices similar to those of Medicare patients. Further, we find that despite increased media attention, hospital prices to the uninsured have risen in recent years.
尽管近年来医疗保健定价方面的文献大量增加，但对于医院定价行为如何影响未参保者，实证分析却很少。我们利用来自加利福尼亚州的独特数据，将未参保患者实际支付的价格与商业保险患者和医疗保险患者支付的价格进行比较。我们发现，未参保患者支付的价格与医疗保险患者相似。此外，我们还发现，尽管媒体关注度有所提高，但近年来医院向未参保者收取的费用仍在上涨。
