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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
care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed … with a clearer decrease in the utilization of emergency services. We also find mild evidence of reduced satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444108
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Financing and funding health care : optimal policy and political implementability
Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
of three modes of health care financing, namely, optimal income taxation, proportional income taxation, and insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383333
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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229860
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Can competition reduce quality?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246067
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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016
does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this depends on the relative strength of the players' concern for income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551043
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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that there is substantial variation in the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255868
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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers
Dahlstrand-Rudin, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024
Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little … is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637277
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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective
Grossmann, Volker - 2021
This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653346
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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497899
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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19
Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021
, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499623