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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084199
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Optimal Waits and Charges in Health Insurance
Gravelle, Hugh; Siciliani, Luigi - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007
Waiting times are commonly used in the health sector to ration demand. We show that when money charges (coinsurance … time if the marginal cost of waiting is higher for patients with greater benefits from health care. Although waiting time … efficient consumption of health care. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695807
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Multitasking, quality and pay for performance
Kaarboe, Oddvar Martin; Siciliani, Luigi - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328472
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Do waiting times reduce hospital costs?
Siciliani, Luigi; Stanciole, Anderson; Jacobs, Rowena - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
Using a sample of 137 hospitals over the period 1998-2002 in the English National Health Service, we estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328552
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293984
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Performance Indicators for Quality with Adverse Selection, Gaming and Inequality Aversion
Kuhn, Michael; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector … receive a low benefit from health care because quality is low then higher inequality aversion increases the optimal level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123654
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Paying for performance with altruistic or motivated providers
Siciliani, Luigi - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007
: a) providers differ in efficiency and there are two types of provider; b) efficiency is private information (adverse … selection); c) providers are partially altruistic or intrinsically motivated; d) they have limited liability. Four types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129612
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Is Waiting-time Prioritisation Welfare Improving?
Gravelle, Hugh; Siciliani, Luigi - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2006
Rationing by waiting time is commonly used in health care systems with zero or low money prices. Some systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042036
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498167
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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets: a Differential-Game Approach
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504502