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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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Depression stigma

Roth, Christopher; Schwardmann, Peter; Tripodi, Egon - 2024

a new measure of perceived depression stigma and then investigates the causal effect of perceived stigma on help …-seeking in a sample of 1,844 Americans suffering from depression. A large majority of our participants overestimate the extent of … stigma associated with depression. In contrast to prior correlational evidence, lowering perceived social stigma through an …

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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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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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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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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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