Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

topic. We first offer a new economic definition of health care fraud that captures and connects the wide range of activities …Healthcare fraud imposes a sizable cost on U.S. public healthcare budgets and distorts health care provision. We … examine the economics of health care fraud and enforcement using theory and data and connect to a growing literature on the …

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 then review the key issues that public and private payers face in …

There is substantial evidence that cost-sharing in medical care constrains total health spending. However, there is … relatively little (and unclear) evidence on its health effects, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper re …-evaluates the link between outpatient cost-sharing and health, studying Colombia's entire formal sector workforce observed monthly …

countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations. As a consequence, there has been a …

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 strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …

Health insurance plans in the U.S. increasingly use price mechanisms to steer demand for prescription drugs. The …