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Dr. René van Vliet
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Dr. R.C.J.A. van Vliet |
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René van Vliet is associate professor of statistics in the Department
of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds a
doctoral degree from that same university. His main research interests are
in the fields of health insurance and health economics. He has published in
international journals like: Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Risk and
Insurance, Health Economics, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Economics,
Health Policy, Medical Care, Inquiry, Health Care Management Science,
Applied Economics, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics,
and European Journal of Health Economics.
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Main areas of research
(1) The impact of insurance coverage on medical consumption and health care
costs, a.o. the disentanglement of the "pure" insurance effect (moral hazard)
from the effects of selection and cost shifting.
(2) The risk adjustment mechanisms necessary for financing health plans
fairly and in such a way that risk selection is avoided. His latest
research in this field centres around using diagnostic information -
deduced from either previous hospitalizations or specific medications -
to improve the risk adjustment system for Dutch health care insurers.
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Publications (in English; post 2000)
- W.P.M.M. van de Ven, R.C.J.A. van Vliet, F.T. Schut and E.M. van Barneveld (2000): "Access to coverage for high-risks in a competitive individual health insurance market: via premium rate restrictions or via risk-adjusted premium subsidies?", Journal of Health Economics, 19, pp. 311-339.
- E.M. van Barneveld, L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2000): "Ignoring small predictable profits and losses: a new approach for measuring incentives for cream skimming", Health Care Management Science, 3, pp. 131-140.
- R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2000): "A statistical analysis of mandatory pooling across health insurers", Journal of Risk and Insurance, 67-2, pp. 197-217.
- F.M. Bakker, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2000): "Deductibles in health insurance: can the actuarially fair premium reduction exceed the deductible?", Health Policy, 53, pp. 123-141.
- E.M. van Barneveld, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2001): "Risk sharing between health plans and sponsors", Health Affairs, May / June, pp. 253-262.
- E.M. van Barneveld, L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2001): "Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation: a tradeoff between selection and efficiency", Journal of Health Economics, 20, pp. 147-168.
- T. Stooker, J. van Acht, J. van Busschbach, R.C.J.A. van Vliet et al. (2001). "Costs in the last years of life in The Netherlands", Inquiry, 38, pp. 73-80.
- R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2001): "Effects of price and deductibles on medical care demand, estimated from survey data", Applied Economics, 33, pp. 1515-1524.
- L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2003): "Risk adjusted premium subsidies and risk sharing: key elements of the competitive sickness fund market in the Netherlands", Health Policy, 65/1, pp. 49-62.
- W.P.M.M. van de Ven, R.C.J.A. van Vliet et al. (2003): "Risk adjustment and consumer choice of sickness fund in five European countries: are solidarity, efficiency and quality of care threatened by selection?", Health Policy, 65/1, pp. 75-98.
- L.M. Lamers and R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2003): "Health-based risk adjustment: improving the Pharmacy-based Cost Group model to reduce gaming possibilities", European Journal of Health Economics, 4, pp. 107-114.
- L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven (2003): "Risk adjusted capitation payment systems for health insurance plans in a competitive market", Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 3(5), pp. 541-549.
- L.M. Lamers and R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2003). "The Pharmacy-based Cost Group Model: Validating and adjusting the classification of medications for chronic conditions to the Dutch situation", Health Policy, 68, pp. 113-121.
- W.P.M.M. van de Ven, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and L.M. Lamers (2004): "Health-based risk-adjusted premium subsidies in managed competition: recent experiences in the Netherlands", Health Affairs, 3(23), pp. 45-55.
- R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2004): "Deductibles and health care expenditures: empirical estimates of price sensitivity based on administrative data", International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 4(4), pp. 283-305.
- R.C. van Kleef, W.P.M.M. van de Ven and R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2005): "Premium rebates in exchange for a voluntary deductible in social health insurance with risk equalization; community-rated or risk-rated?", to be published in Journal of Risk and Insurance
- R.C.J.A. van Vliet (2005): "Free choice of health plan combined with risk-adjusted capitation payments: are switchers and new enrolees good risks?", to be published in Health Economics.
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