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Reduce Costs or Simply (2008)
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@MISC{Prior08reducecosts,
author = {Telemedicine Call Prior and Chantal Grandchamp and Lucien Gardiol and Telemedicine Call Prior and Chantal Grandchamp and Lucien Gardiol},
title = {Reduce Costs or Simply},
year = {2008}
}
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Abstract
Does a mandatory telemedicine call prior to visiting a physician reduce costs or simply attract good risks? Chantal Grandchamp ∗ Lucien Gardiol† This paper aims to estimate empirically the efficiency of a Swiss telemedicine service introduced in 2003. We used claims ’ data gathered by a major Swiss health insurer, over a period of six years and involving 160 000 insured adults. In Switzerland, health insurance is mandatory, but everyone has the option of choosing between a managed care plan and a fee-for-service plan. The present paper focuses on a conventional fee-for-service plan including a mandatory access to a telemedicine service; the insured are obliged to phone this medical call centre prior to visiting a physician. This type of plan generates much lower average health expenditures
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reduce cost insured adult average health expenditure good risk major swiss health insurer medical call centre care plan claim data chantal grandchamp lucien gardiol health insurance mandatory telemedicine call fee-for-service plan present paper plan generates swiss telemedicine service conventional fee-for-service plan mandatory access telemedicine service
