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Addressing private practice in public hospitals
Guo, Xidong; Parlane, Sarah - 2020
impact on the quality and cost of healthcare. We also capture this policy's impact on the number of outpatients that are seen …. However, the private fees generate lower healthcare costs. Hence the removal of private practice in public hospitals is only … currently done in Ireland, increases healthcare costs due to incentive compatibility issues. …
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Price Changes in Regulated Healthcare Markets : Do Public Hospitals Respond and How?
Verzulli, Rossella - 2015
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010481
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Price changes in regulated healthcare markets : do public hospitals respond and how?
Verzulli, Rossella; Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, … - 2015
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713787
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Calidad De La Atención En Salud En Hospitales Universitarios (Quality in Health Care in Teaching Hospitals)
Carreño Dueñas, José Alexander - 2014
indicators, nosocomial infections and hospital readmission, from 2006 to 2010 and established differences in the results between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038317
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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment ; conference paper
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2014
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489953
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Death by Market Power : Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
Gaynor, Martin - 2014
the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067714
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625877
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630956
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Optimal contracting with altruistic agents : a structural model of Medicare payments for dialysis drugs
Gaynor, Martin; Mehta, Nirav; Richards-Shubik, Seth - 2020
We study physician agency and optimal payment policy in the context of an expensive medication used in dialysis care. Using Medicare claims data we estimate a structural model of treatment decisions, in which physicians differ in their altruism and marginal costs, and this heterogeneity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216358
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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741498