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Record W2145041857

Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights

2002· article· en· W2145041857 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Timothy Lake

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematica Policy Research Reports · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealthcare Policy and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)Maturity (psychological)BusinessPolitical scienceGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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Examines the California experience from year-end 1997 through the beginning of 2002 to identify lessons that can be applied to the national M+C environment. California enrollees account for about one-quarter of the national enrollment in the M+C program, and the state has a much higher market penetration rate than the rest of the nation. The market in California is dominated by three national firms—Kaiser-Permanente, PacifiCare, and Health Net—which account for 83 percent of M+C enrollment in the state. While the maturity of California’s market has contributed to some stability and California has been less affected by withdrawals than other states, the same market pressures—such as physician networking problems and cost pressures—that are affecting other states are also impacting California. Furthermore, health plans that use a delegated risk model are under much more pressure than firms with an integrated delivery structure. The authors note that provider infrastructure and contracting have had a large influence on the program's success, and M+C will likely remain an almost exclusively urban product.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.481
Threshold uncertainty score0.956

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.251
GPT teacher head0.404
Teacher spread0.153 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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