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Does quality affect patients’ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK
Gravelle, Hugh S; Propper, Carol; Santos, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
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Can We Measure Hospital Quality from Physicians' Choices?
Machado, Matilde Pinto; Mora, Ricardo; Romero-Medina, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology for ranking hospitals based on the choices of Medical School graduates over hospital training vacancies. Our methodology is therefore a revealed preference approach. Our methodology for measuring relative hospital quality has the following...
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Technological adoption in health care
Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients' benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied: cost...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D
Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...
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Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance
Kaarboe, Oddvar Martin; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is verifiable (dimension 1) and one dimension is not verifiable (dimension 2). We show that the power of the incentive scheme...
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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular, have been of prior concern to policy and to research. Using a rich panel data set this paper contributes to this literature by investigating factors determining the demand for...
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Performance Indicators for Quality with Adverse Selection, Gaming and Inequality Aversion
Kuhn, Michael; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector. We develop a model of contracting between a purchaser (principal) and a provider (agent) under the following scenarios: a) higher ability increases quality directly and...
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Public and Private Provision of Health Care
Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries … reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors … solution when decisions are sequential (specialized health-care sector). We also derive some normative conclusions on the way …
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