The Impact of Insurance and HIV Treatment Technology on HIV Testing / Neeraj Sood, Yanyu Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sood, Neeraj.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wu, Yanyu.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19397.

NBER working paper series no. w19397

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

This paper investigates the effects of health insurance and new antiviral treatments on HIV testing rates among the U.S. general population using nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) for the years 1993 to 2002. We estimate recursive bivariate probit models with insurance coverage and HIV testing as the dependent variables. We use changes in Medicaid eligibility and distribution of firm size over time within a state as instruments for insurance coverage. The results suggest that (a) insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates, (b) insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates more among the high risk population, and (c) the advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) increases the effects of insurance coverage on HIV testing for high risk populations.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2013.