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Table 2 Strategies for changing behavior at the time of receiving health services

From: A systematic review of strategies used for controlling consumer moral hazard in health systems

Theme

/source

Category

Code

Outcome variables

Demand side cost sharing

[5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18,19,20, 22,23,24,25, 27,28,29,30,31,32,33, 27,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49, 51,52,53,54,55,56,57, 51,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67, 70,71,72,73, 78]

Uniform

cost sharing

- Fixed rate of deductible: traditional deductible, mandatory deductible, First euro deductible/ a first-dollar deductible, doughnut hole deductible

- Fixed rate of co-payments or coinsurance/co-insurance: /copayment/ user charges / user-fee, lump sum co-payments, fixed payment, Mandatory co-payments

- Fixed-rate insurance coverage limit /caps on insurance /stop loss. / payment ceiling limit on coverage, limit on out-of-pocket expenses

- Health services utilization

- Health costs

- Health related behavior

- Choice of insurance plan

- The opinion and acceptance of consumers

Differential

cost sharing

- Income base cost sharing: income base deductible: income-related copayment /coinsurance/ different copayment according to the socioeconomic status

- Varied deducible: Shift deductible, variable deductible, different size of deductible. optional deductible, voluntary deductible (VD), high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), higher insurance deductibles

- Tier cost sharing: :multitier copayments / tiered copayment/ price-related co-payment tier, tier coinsurance

- Value-based cost sharing: Value Based Insurance Design (VBID) / value-based cost sharing (lower coinsurance for services with higher costs benefits / value-based coinsurance target / variable co-insurance based on demand elasticity/ treatment-specific copayments disease-specific cost sharing/ differential cost sharing based on disease status

- Cost sharing with discount: co-payment exemption, co-payment with rebate, / waiving copays

 

Health savings accounts

(HSAs)

[26, 50, 54, 58, 60, 74, 75]

Voluntary Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

- Health savings accounts (HSAs) / Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) / medical savings accounts (MSAs) in combination with private insurance

- Consumer-Directed Health Plans (CDHPS) /Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHPS) / Three-Tier Payment System(HDHPS Coupled With Personal Savings Account)

- Health services utilization

- Health costs

- Saving for future

Compulsory Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

- Medisave (Medical savings accounts) (MSAs) in combination with social health insurance

- Tongdao (MSA )in combination social risk-pooling (SRP)/ medical savings accounts (MSAs) in combination with social insurance pool (SIP)/ the three-tiered design (MSA-deductible-SIP)

- Bankuai (MSA) separately to finance outpatient services

 

Drug price regulation

[21]

Uniform pricing

discriminatory pricing

- Uniform pricing/uniform monopoly pricing

- Third degree price discrimination / (different prices to different markets or groups) of consumers

- Drug utilization

Two PartPricing

- Two-part tariffs.) combines a uniform price with market-specific lump-sum payments

 

Rationing for health services [10, 31, 34]

Rationing by waiting

- Waiting lists / queuing /expectancy queue/the cost of the lost time

- Waiting time

- Optimality

- Well-being