Private Health Insurance
- Report
How CBO and JCT Analyze Major Proposals That Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage
The process for analyzing major health care legislation involves three key steps: develop an analytic strategy, model the effects of the proposal, and review and write about the estimate.
- Working Paper
An Analysis of Private-Sector Prices for Physicians’ Services: Working Paper 2018-01
This paper analyzes private insurers’ prices for physicians’ services. Commercial prices for those services are higher than Medicare fee-for-service prices; Medicare Advantage prices are very similar to Medicare fee-for-service prices.
- Presentation
An Overview of CBO’s Estimates of Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027
Presentation by Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at a Congressional Research Service seminar on CBO’s methods for developing cost estimates.
- Presentation
Estimating the Costs of Proposals Affecting Health Insurance Coverage
Presentation by Sarah Masi, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at a Congressional Research Service seminar on CBO’s methods for developing cost estimates.
- Working Paper
Issues and Challenges in Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care: Working Paper 2017-10
This paper provides an overview of the current state of measuring health care quality, and it uses the Medicare program to illustrate the key issues and challenges that arise in doing so.
- Presentation
An Overview of CBO’s Estimates of Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027
Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, will deliver this presentation on December 7, 2017, at the Inforum Outlook Conference at the University of Maryland.
- Working Paper
Effects of Medicare Advantage Enrollment on Beneficiary Risk Scores: Working Paper 2017-08
Does Medicare Advantage (MA) increase the risk scores used to adjust payments to MA plans? This paper explores the mechanisms contributing to the differences in risk scores between MA enrollees and fee-for-service beneficiaries.
- Report
Repealing the Individual Health Insurance Mandate: An Updated Estimate
CBO and the JCT estimate that, by itself, repealing the mandate would reduce federal deficits by about $338 billion over the 2018–2027 period and increase the number of uninsured people by 4 million in 2019 and 13 million in 2027.
- Cost Estimate
Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017
CBO and the JCT estimate that enacting the legislation would reduce the deficit by $3.8 billion over the 2018–2027 period without substantially changing the number of people with health insurance coverage, on net.
- Report
A Premium Support System for Medicare: Updated Analysis of Illustrative Options
CBO presents new estimates of the budgetary effects of options for a premium support system for Medicare and examines the reasons for the changes in the estimates, including changes in law that have affected the Medicare program.