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adverse selection

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adverse selection,
n a statistical condition within a group when there is a greater demand for dental services and/or more services necessary than the average expected for that group.

adverse selection
Managed care 1. A stance adopted by health care insurers, which fiercely compete among themselves to insure the healthiest and wealthiest segment of a particular population, and thus adversely select the population which they target for selling insurance policies. See 'Safety net' hospital 2. A health plan, whether indemnity or managed care, is selected over other plans by enrollees who are more likely to file claims and use services, causing an inequitable proportion of enrollees requiring more medical services in that plan


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The premier issue includes articles on: possible adverse selection due to greater Medicare HMO enrollment; a game theoretical model of drug launch in India; the trade in human organs; cross-national comparisons of human resources for health; and, setting health care priorities.
The employee, of course, would like to be hired, and so has an incentive to appear more diligent during the interview than he really is; this fact complicates the employer's efforts to pick the sort of employee who will want to work hard, a phenomenon referred to as the adverse selection problem.
``We believe adverse selection is a significantly greater risk in the current environment of intensifying price competition than it was two-to-three years ago when Aetna put through higher rate increases to restore profitability.
 
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