How to Build an Agent-based Model to Assess the Impact of Co-payment for Health Services

Angela Testi, Michele Sonnessa, Elena Tànfani

2012

Abstract

Some forms of co-payment are required in insurance markets to avoid moral hazard that in health sector entails excessive consumption and costs. Literature and empirical findings, however, do not agree about the effectiveness of co-payment in practical situations. Moreover, in health systems co-payment seems to be more aimed to help in financing than to reduce moral hazard. The final impact of co-payment is rather difficult to predict due to these conflicting aims. Assessing the impact of a co-payment policy is, however, very important, because it affects also the principles of universalistic health systems threatening equity attainment. The specific aim of this paper is to propose an Agent-based simulation model that allows both i) to take into account all these contradictory effects at the same time, ii) to compare different co-payment models. The model development is presented mixing empirical data with some stochastic assumptions the authors intend to test.

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Testi A., Sonnessa M. and Tànfani E. (2012). How to Build an Agent-based Model to Assess the Impact of Co-payment for Health Services . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-20-4, pages 556-563. DOI: 10.5220/0004166205560563


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@conference{ha12,
author={Angela Testi and Michele Sonnessa and Elena Tànfani},
title={How to Build an Agent-based Model to Assess the Impact of Co-payment for Health Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={556-563},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004166205560563},
isbn={978-989-8565-20-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: HA, (SIMULTECH 2012)
TI - How to Build an Agent-based Model to Assess the Impact of Co-payment for Health Services
SN - 978-989-8565-20-4
AU - Testi A.
AU - Sonnessa M.
AU - Tànfani E.
PY - 2012
SP - 556
EP - 563
DO - 10.5220/0004166205560563