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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Price Adjustment in the Hospital Sector

Miraldo, Marisa; Siciliani, Luigi; Street, Andrew - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2008

Prospective payment systems are currently used in many OECD countries, where hospitals are paid a fixed price for each patient treated. We develop a theoretical model to analyse the properties of the optimal fixed prices to be paid to hospitals when no lump-sum transfers are allowed and when the...

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Modelling the Dynamics of a Public Health Care System: Evidence from Time-Series Data

Iacone, Fabrizio; Martin, Steve; Siciliani, Luigi; … - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2007

The English National Health Service was established in 1948, and has therefore yielded some long time series data on … health system performance. Waiting times for inpatient care have been a persistent cause of policy concern since the creation … of the NHS. This paper develops a theoretical model of the dynamic interaction between key indicators of health system …

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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 …

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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 …

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Patient choice and the effects of hospital market structure on mortality for AMI, hip fracture and stroke patients

Gravelle, Hugh; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Santos, Rita; … - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2014

We examine (a) the effect of market structure on the level of mortality for AMI, hip fracture, and stroke between 2002/3 and 2010/11 and (b) whether this effect changed after the introduction of Choice policy in 2006 which gave patients the right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip...

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …

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Optimal Price-Setting in Pay for Performance Schemes in Health Care

Rud Kristensen, Søren; Siciliani, Luigi; Sutton, Matt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

health gains, providers’ altruism and the opportunity cost of public funds. We derive optimal prices for processes … incentivised in the Best Practice Tariffs for emergency stroke care in the English National Health Service. Based on published … estimates, we compare these to the prices set by the English Department of Health. We find that actual tariffs were lower than …

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