Pricing regulatiâon of individual health plans

Vol. 31 No. 3 (2011)

Jul-Sep / 2011
Published July 1, 2011
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How to Cite

Ocké-Reis, Carlos Octávio, and Simone de Douza Cardoso. 2011. “Pricing regulatiâon of Individual Health Plans”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 31 (3):455-70. https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/415.

Pricing regulatiâon of individual health plans

Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada.
Simone de Souza Cardoso
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 31 No. 3 (2011), Jul-Sep / 2011, Pages 455-470

Abstract

Pricing regulation of Brazilian private health insurance. Aggregate price indices measure variations in nominal prices. In this paper, we compare the inflation rates of the general economy and those of the health sector and private health insurance market between 2001 and 2005, based on the indices of Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos, of Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas, of Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and IPEADATA database, to the private heath insurance readjustment applied by the National Private Health Insurance Agency (ANS). The health sector inflation rate was found stable and inferior to the general one, what would validate applying lower readjustments derived from official price indices.

JEL Classification: D40, I11, I18.


Keywords: Bundle pricing health care markets regulation government policy