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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
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Organizational powers : capture of professional jurisdiction in the case of US retail clinics
Galperin, Roman V. - 2011
Innovative technology may reduce organizations’ reliance on professionals in the performance of expert tasks, weakening professions’ control over work. However, professions resist and challenge such innovation, framing it as unsafe and immoral. This paper theorizes a process by which...
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How complex are the contracts offered by health plans?
Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 3, pp. 305-323
When health plans compete under adverse selection, the competitive equilibrium set of contracts is unique. However, the allocation of these contracts among health plans is undetermined. We show that three health plans suffice to sustain an equilibrium where each health plan offers a single...
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Balance billing: the patients’ perspective
Kifmann, Mathias; Scheuer, Florian - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 14, pp. 1-14
We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be justified...
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Public-sector outsourcing : the desirability of outsourcing the provision of public services depends on their characteristics and market conditions
Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...
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Ask your doctor or pharmacist! : on the effect of self-dispensing physicians on pharmaceutical coverage
Bannert, Matthias; Iselin, David - 2015
In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
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Defining hospital markets : an application to the German hospital sector
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman; Schmid, Andreas - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 28, pp. 1-17
The correct definition of the product market and of the geographic market is a prerequisite for assessing market structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating...
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Health workforce planning in OECD countries : a review of 26 projection models from 18 countries
Ono, Tomoko; Lafortune, Gaetan; Schoenstein, Michael - 2013
the time and cost involved in training new doctors and other health professionals. In a context of tight budget …
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Belgium : enhancing the cost efficiency and flexibility of the health sector to adjust to population ageing
Sorbe, Stéphane - 2013
system could be rationalised by giving sickness funds a more active role as promoters of cost-efficiency, better aligning the … remuneration of doctors and measures to tackle the high spending on drugs. Once incentives for cost-efficiency are in place, a …-term care, home care, which is generally cost-efficient, could be further encouraged by giving more autonomy to patients to …
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Improving health outcomes and system in Hungary
Eris, Mehmet - 2012
Based on the latest available data up to 2009, the health status of the Hungarian population is among the poorest in the OECD, including countries with a similar level of income per capita. While this outcome has been driven by the socioeconomic status of the population and lifestyle risks, it...
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