adverse selection (redirected from Antiselection)

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.

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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