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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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Long-term Care in Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Haan, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437001
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The Economics of Long-Term Care in Canada
Milligan, Kevin; Schirle, Tammy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper contributes a broad overview of the Canadian long-term care system. Taking an economist's viewpoint, we bring together supply and demand factors to provide an economic analysis of the current and future path for long-term care. Like other OECD countries, the coming demographic wave of...
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Financing Health Care Delivery
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care spending and market failures in health care delivery. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334471
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Pricing Innovation in Surgical Care Markets
Chen, Alice; Freedman, Seth; Munnich, Elizabeth L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on price signals for downstream providers, which can also be discordant across production inputs. We examine such a context when Medicare sharply revises facility fees--while holding...
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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States : Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and are not likely to facilitate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537748
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Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery
Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical … performance is the price per dose, while the increased probability of success due to mRNA technology, adjusting the size of the … portfolio, and the possibility of conducting human challenge trials do not significantly improve financial performance. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334345
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Long-term Care in Japan
Fu, Rong; Iizuka, Toshiaki; Noguchi, Haruko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Japan, renowned for its significantly aged population, presents a distinctive landscape in elderly care. Notably, there exists no apparent correlation between the economic well-being of the elderly and the limitations they experience in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental...
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Long-term Care in the United States
Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Kathleen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The population of the United States, as with the rest of the world, is aging rapidly, with the most rapid growth occurring among the age 85 and older population, those who rely most on long-term care. In this chapter, we review the delivery and financing of long-term care in the U.S. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437012
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Long-term Care Around the World
Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Kathleen; Hanzel, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The developed world is in the midst of an enormous demographic transition, with life expectancy increasing and fertility falling, leading to a rapid aging of the population. This trend has critical implications for long-term care around the world. This paper serves as the introduction to a...
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