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First do no harm. Then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology
Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013
the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …
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Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor);  … - 2006
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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016
, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …
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Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 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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Regulation and pricing of pharmaceuticals : reference pricing or price cap regulation?
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor);  … - 2007
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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2009
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
reduced charge prices by 3.9% (which corresponds to savings of $1,164 per hospital stay) but also diminished negotiated prices … by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as … negotiated prices, while low-price hospitals increase charges; (2) hospital characteristics such as ownership, case mix, and …
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Introducing activity-based payment in the hospital industry : evidence from French data
Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - 2013
Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …
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Hospital competition with soft budgets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013
(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency …
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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
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