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No Gaps Health Insurance: a Gain for Consumers or a Windfall for Specialists?

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dc.contributor.authorGray, Gwendolyn
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:20:24Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T23:20:24Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T09:03:01Z
dc.description.abstractAttempts to introduce contracts between the purchasers and providers of Australian health services in the 1990s in order to reduce the gaps, or 'copayments', that patients pay have met with limited success. However, the Harradine requirement that health funds introduce 'no gap' or 'known gap' policies by the middle of the year 2000 has raised a political storm within the AMA and set the funds and doctors in an adversarial position. This paper traces the history of 'gaps' and gap insurance, provides an interpretation of the present situation and speculates about likely outcomes.
dc.identifier.issn0156-5788
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/90686
dc.publisherAustralian Hospital Association
dc.sourceAustralian Health Review
dc.subjectKeywords: article; Australia; cost; economics; financial management; general practice; health care policy; health insurance; history; legal aspect; medical fee; medical society; medicine; organization and management; public health; statistics; Australia; Contract S
dc.titleNo Gaps Health Insurance: a Gain for Consumers or a Windfall for Specialists?
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage26
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage18
local.contributor.affiliationGray, Gwendolyn, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidGray, Gwendolyn, u8506952
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor150204 - Insurance Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub21120
local.identifier.citationvolume22
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0033258091
local.type.statusPublished Version

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