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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292046
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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes
Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021
Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217556
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Physician Density and Infant Mortality : A Semiparametric Analysis of the Returns to Health Care Provision
Liebert, Helge - 2018
endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908713
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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records
Geiger, Nadine - 2019
WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872061
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Nursing Home Aversion Post-Pandemic: Implications for Savings and Long-Term Care Policy
Achou, Bertrand; De Donder, Philippe; Glenzer, Franca; … - 2021
COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes during the recent pandemic, which received ample media coverage, may have lasting negative impacts on individuals' perceptions regarding nursing homes. We argue that this could have sizable and persistent implications for savings and long-term care policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658001
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Nursing Home Aversion Post-Pandemic : Implications for Savings and Long-Term Care Policy
Achou, Bertrand; De Donder, Philippe; Glenzer, Franca; … - 2021
COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes during the recent pandemic, which received ample media coverage, may have lasting negative impacts on individuals’ perceptions regarding nursing homes. We argue that this could have sizable and persistent implications for savings and longterm care policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212256
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The "Great Lockdown": Inactive Workers and Mortality by Covid-19
Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2020
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, among other previous "non-pharmaceutical interven-tions", on March 22, 2020 the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effect of this measure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314871
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Plan Responses to Diagnosis-Based Payment: Evidence from Germany's Morbidity-Based Risk Adjustment
Bauhoff, Sebastian; Fischer, Lisa; Göpffarth, Dirk; … - 2017
Many competitive health insurance markets adjust payments to participating health plans according to their enrollees …’ risk – including based on diagnostic information. We investigate responses of German health plans to the introduction of … morbidity-based risk adjustment in the Statutory Health Insurance in 2009, which triggers payments based on “validated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698674
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The 'Great Lockdown' : Inactive Workers and Mortality by COVID-19
Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2021
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown on March 22, 2020 and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231388
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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266017