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How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?
Dafny, Leemore S.; Ho, Katherine; Kong, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
commercial and Medicare Advantage plans. Using data on net-of-rebate prices and quantities from a large Pharmacy Benefits Manager … year after introduction, but do not differentially impact net-of-rebate prices, at least in the short-run. To quantify the …
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Contracting over Pharmaceutical Formularies and Rebates
Ho, Kate - 2024
manufacturers over menus of formulary-contingent rebate payments and then selects a formulary. We then estimate how formulary … predictions align with aggregate rebate data, and we find that allowing a PBM to place branded drugs on preferred and non …-preferred tiers can substantially increase negotiated rebate payments …
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Managed Care Discounting : Evidence from the MarketScan Database
Dor, Avi - 2004
The paper examines price discounting by health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations in markets for hospital services. Our empirical analysis focuses on transaction prices for angioplasty, which is a relatively common procedure, with well defined 'product'...
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Transaction Prices and Managed Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies : A Bargaining Approach
Dor, Avi - 2004
It is generally assumed that managed care has been successful at capturing discounts from medical providers, but the implications have been a matter of debate. Critics argue that managed care organizations attain savings by reducing intensity of services, while others have argued that savings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468316
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Remedies for Price Overcharges : The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2003
This article evaluates two different remedies for consumers who have been injured by a price overcharge on the sale of a good. Under a coupon remedy, injured consumers are awarded coupons that can be used for a limited period of time to purchase the good at a price below that which prevails...
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Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals
Nevo, Aviv - 1999
This paper explores the relationship between shelf prices and manufacturers' coupons for 25 ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Contrary to the predictions of static monopoly price discrimination, we find the shelf prices for a particular brand in a particular city are generally lower during periods...
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Settling for Coupons : Discount Contracts as Compensation and Punishment in Antitrust Lawsuits
Borenstein, Severin - 1995
A number of recent antitrust lawsuits have been settled with discount contracts in which the defendants agree in the future to sell to the plaintiffs at a discount off of the price they offer to other buyers. Economists often object to such settlements, arguing that the sellers will partially or...
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Myopia and Discounting
Gabaix, Xavier - 2017
We assume that perfectly patient agents estimate the value of future events by generating noisy, unbiased simulations and combining those signals with priors to form posteriors. These posterior expectations exhibit as-if discounting: agents make choices as if they were maximizing a stream of...
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Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?
Boomhower, Judson P. - 2017
those savings occur. In this paper we demonstrate the importance of this distinction using novel evidence from a rebate …
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The Behavioralist as Policy Designer : The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
Hahn, Robert - 2016
themselves, social comparisons and loss framing have no significant impact on the number of rebate requests; when combined …
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