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The Effect of Price Caps on Pharmaceutical Advertising : Evidence from the 340b Drug Pricing Program
Hristakeva, Sylvia; Mortimer, Julie Holland; Yde, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-up of Naloxone
Jacobson, Mireille; Powell, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We conducted a field experiment that randomized advertisements, advertisement content, and prices across 2,204 counties in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising increased website users but only impacted purchases...
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Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment : Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange
Shepard, Mark; Wagner, Myles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477273
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The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Outpatient Care Utilization
Eisenberg, Matthew; Rabideau, Brendan; Alpert, Abby E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In … this paper, we inform this debate by examining the effects of DTCA on office visits, as well as treatment courses resulting …-advertised generic drugs or do not result in use of any drugs. Finally, we find that the increase in office visits due to DTCA is …
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Risk Preferences Over Health : Empirical Estimates and Implications for Healthcare Decision-Making
Mulligan, Karen; Baid, Drishti; Doctor, Jason N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the implementation of this generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness...
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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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Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Treatment : Evidence from Medicare
Agniel, Denis; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Maclean, Johanna … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Opioid overdose deaths in older adults have increased substantially over the past two decades. This increase has occurred despite the availability of effective treatments. Methadone, one of just three medications approved by the Food & Drug Administration for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment,...
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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry
Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...
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Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Darden, Michael; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust. We report several findings. First, we document a...
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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department
Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Professions play a key role in determining the division of labor and the returns to skilled work. This paper studies the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background,...
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