Alvaro J. Riascos Villegas Universidad de los Andes – Facultad de Economía Quantil Matemáticas Aplicadas. Presentación: Septiembre 19 de 2011
Alvaro J. Riascos (Universidad de los Andes y Quantil), Mauricio Romero (Universidad de California – San Diego), y Natalia Serna (Quantil).
Maestría en Economía Aplicada, Agosto de 2017.
Abstract. Risk adjustment is vital in health policy design. Risk adjustment defines the annual capitation payments to health insurers and is a key determinant of insolvency risk for health insurers. In this study we compare the current risk adjustment formula used by Colombia’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection against alternative specifications that adjust for additional factors. We show that the current risk adjustment formula, which conditions on demographic factors and their interactions, can only predict 30% of total health expenditures in the upper quintile of the expenditure distribution. We also show the government’s formula can improve significantly by conditioning ex ante on measures indicators of 29 long-term diseases. We contribute to the risk adjustment literature by estimating machine learning based models and showing non-parametric methodologies (e.g., boosted trees models) outperform linear regressions even when fitted in a smaller set of regressors.
Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Economía, Nota de Política Nº 28: Ajuste de Riesgo y Solvencia de las Aseguradoras de Salud en Colombia.
"Profesores de la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de los Andes proponen cambiar la redistribución de recursos entre estas entidades."