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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments
Schwardmann, Peter - 2017
People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment … compared to the baseline and patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is …
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and … patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is found to partially offset the …
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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...
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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19
Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems because of cancelled elective care visits and...
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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...
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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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Healthy reviews! : online physician ratings reduce healthcare interruptions
Kummer, Michael E.; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Rich, Cyrus E.; … - 2021
We show that review platforms reduce healthcare interruptions for patients looking for a new physician. We employ a difference-in-differences strategy using physician retirements as a “disruptive shock” that forces patients to find a new physician. We combine insurance claims data with...
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Übernahmen durch Private Equity im deutschen Gesundheitssektor : eine Zwischenbilanz für die Jahre 2013 bis 2018
Scheuplein, Christoph; Evans, Michaela; Merkel, Sebastian - 2019
Der Beitrag untersucht die Übernahmen von Unternehmen im deutschen Gesundheitssektor durch Private Equity-Gesellschaften. Hierzu wurden Transaktionsdaten aus verschiedenen Datenquellen für die Jahre 2013 bis zum ersten Halbjahr 2018 ausgewertet. Für diesen Zeitraum konnten rund 130...
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Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2023
In the fight against antibiotic resistance, reducing antibiotic consumption while preserving healthcare quality presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment....
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