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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 …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …

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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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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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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Optimal procurement of a credence good under limited liability

Bester, Helmut; Yaofu, Ouyang - 2017

This paper analyzes the optimal contract for a consumer to procure a credence good from an expert when (i) the expert might misrepresent his private information about the consumer’s need, (ii) the expert might not choose the requested service since his choice of treatment is non-observable,...

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Mergers and Acquisitions in the Markets for Diagnostic Services: Evidence from the Finnish Private Health Care Sector

Nurminen, Mikko - 2021

Health care markets in developed countries have become increasingly concentrated, while at the same time there has been an increasing trend of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in these markets. I study the impact of M&As in the diagnostic procedure market, a market that is an important part of...

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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)

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of physicians' market shares. Medical treatment is an example...

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Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation

Bester, Helmut; Dahm, Matthias - 2014

We study contracting between a consumer and an expert. The expert can invest in diagnosis to obtain a noisy signal about whether a low-cost service is sufficient or whether a high-cost treatment is required to solve the consumerś problem. This involves moral hazard because diagnosis effort and...

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