Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance

In this paper, we considered the long-term health insurance as a sequence of annual health insurance policies. To improve the disadvantages of long-term health insurance, we specify the optimal contract including optimal insurance premiums and optimal insurance coverage for the healthcare costs usin...

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Main Authors: Atefeh Kanani Dizaji, Amir Payandeh Najafabadi, Mohammad Zokaei
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Language:English
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2021-12-01
Series:Mathematics and Modeling in Finance
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Online Access:https://jmmf.atu.ac.ir/article_13838_a9e25bbfcc8b584f93522c374bfdfa08.pdf
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author Atefeh Kanani Dizaji
Amir Payandeh Najafabadi
Mohammad Zokaei
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description In this paper, we considered the long-term health insurance as a sequence of annual health insurance policies. To improve the disadvantages of long-term health insurance, we specify the optimal contract including optimal insurance premiums and optimal insurance coverage for the healthcare costs using a negotiation model. We considered two case of known and unknown initial health state. The predictive model for healthcare costs was determined as a time series and state-contingent models. Since the health state changes over time, the insured tends not only to be insured against risk according to her health state, but also to be insured against reclassification of risk. The insurer also seeks a fair premium appropriate to the insured's risk. To achieve this, we determined the optimal contract based on the negotiation model, in which the negotiation parameter is calculated based on the Nash solution. The optimal premium is independent of health state so that the insured is safe against reclassification. However, the insurer coverage is state-contingent and protects the insurer from detriment. Moreover, due to the uncertainty in estimating the parameters of the prediction model, we specified the projection interval by using the bootstrap method for optimal insurance premiums in the coming years. Thus, the insured is aware of the premium intervals at the time of signing the contract with the insurer.
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spelling doaj.art-82c0e9a7a8a74d36936eb5c25a3cefc42023-12-19T05:15:00ZengAllameh Tabataba'i University PressMathematics and Modeling in Finance2783-05782783-056X2021-12-0112274210.22054/jmmf.2021.1383813838Designing an Updatable Long Term Health InsuranceAtefeh Kanani Dizaji0Amir Payandeh Najafabadi1Mohammad Zokaei2Actuarial Science Department, Mathematics Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran, IranDepartment of Actuarial Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IranActuarial Science Department, Mathematics Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IranIn this paper, we considered the long-term health insurance as a sequence of annual health insurance policies. To improve the disadvantages of long-term health insurance, we specify the optimal contract including optimal insurance premiums and optimal insurance coverage for the healthcare costs using a negotiation model. We considered two case of known and unknown initial health state. The predictive model for healthcare costs was determined as a time series and state-contingent models. Since the health state changes over time, the insured tends not only to be insured against risk according to her health state, but also to be insured against reclassification of risk. The insurer also seeks a fair premium appropriate to the insured's risk. To achieve this, we determined the optimal contract based on the negotiation model, in which the negotiation parameter is calculated based on the Nash solution. The optimal premium is independent of health state so that the insured is safe against reclassification. However, the insurer coverage is state-contingent and protects the insurer from detriment. Moreover, due to the uncertainty in estimating the parameters of the prediction model, we specified the projection interval by using the bootstrap method for optimal insurance premiums in the coming years. Thus, the insured is aware of the premium intervals at the time of signing the contract with the insurer.https://jmmf.atu.ac.ir/article_13838_a9e25bbfcc8b584f93522c374bfdfa08.pdfreclassificationpareto-optimal contractnash solutionbootstrap method
spellingShingle Atefeh Kanani Dizaji
Amir Payandeh Najafabadi
Mohammad Zokaei
Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
Mathematics and Modeling in Finance
reclassification
pareto-optimal contract
nash solution
bootstrap method
title Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
title_full Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
title_fullStr Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
title_full_unstemmed Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
title_short Designing an Updatable Long Term Health Insurance
title_sort designing an updatable long term health insurance
topic reclassification
pareto-optimal contract
nash solution
bootstrap method
url https://jmmf.atu.ac.ir/article_13838_a9e25bbfcc8b584f93522c374bfdfa08.pdf
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