Description

For all persons with at least two private health insurance plans, HIP2TYPE reports the type of insurance the second plan is. Response categories include Health Maintenance Organization/Individual Practice Association (HMO/IPA), Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Point-of-Service (POS), fee-for-service/indemnity, or some other kind of plan. Please see Codes tab for years when certain plan types were added as response categories.

Comparability

Other than additions to response categories in 1998 and 2000, there are no comparability issues with this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 1997-2018

Weights

• 1997-2018 : PERWEIGHT