Journal of Health & Medical Economics

Description

This chapter provides a summary of behavioral health economics research with a focus on the insurance and health care product markets. We argue that these markets deserve a special place in economic analysis due to the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases that cause mistakes. In addition, despite the fact that the behavioral health economics literature has done a better job of documenting consumer-choice errors in insurance and treatment selections than it has in explaining why these errors occur, we maintain that these errors should not be ignored in our analyses. We compile evidence demonstrating that consumers leave a significant amount of money on the table when selecting insurance plans, sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars. This is true for both active choices (such as not having a default plan) and passive choices (such as having a default plan).We discusses the interaction between consumer choice difficulties or biases and adverse selection and the implications of this body of work for the design and regulation of insurance markets. We then archive proof on shopper botches in medical care usage and therapy decisions, particularly because of changes in costs like copayments and deductibles. The conventional argument that the price elasticity of demand for medical care accurately reflects the degree of moral hazard is muddled by our demonstration of how choice difficulties or biases may cause patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by decreasing demand for high-value care.

High-Value Care

In the end, we offer recommendations for future research. It is necessary to encourage nurses' contributions to the creation of value in healthcare. One strategy for promoting cost-effective healthcare delivery in the United States and expanding HE knowledge among practicing nurses could be to increase the share and accessibility of HE content in continuing education offerings. Nearly all students who entered the BSN completion program had previously worked in a clinical setting and had been employed for a significant amount of time. The majority of students would actively complain during the first class about the prospect of spending their valuable time, money, and effort studying concepts that they considered to be of "no value." However, by the end of a typical course, their perception of the value of HE would have completely changed, and many students were open about how surprised and unprepared they were for this change. Every HE concept was immediately put to the test by students for possible application in their workplace because they would readily bring a wealth of clinical experience into the classroom throughout the course.

Professional Lives

This resulted in a highly interactive and practice-oriented learning environment. It became abundantly clear that there was a direct correlation between the students' perceptions of the relevance of HE knowledge and skills to their professional lives and the amount of knowledge they had about the subject. After completing a required HE course, the average perception of its value tended to be relatively high, whereas at minimal levels of exposure to HE, the average perception of its value tended to be relatively low. Even though the observations in this project were made in a group of RN-BSN students, the authors could see how it could be applied to nursing education at any level. The research that is presented in this article was inspired by that observation.

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