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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014
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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Supplementary Private Health Insurance in Selected Countries: Lessons for EU Governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - CESifo - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010152
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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - CESifo - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583686
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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948817
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009
costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000366
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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2007
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416510
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Reference Pricing, Competition, and Pharmaceutical Expenditures: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010
We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799730
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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand
Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - CESifo - 2013
We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...
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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - CESifo - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877737
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727295