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Prescribing behavior of General Practitioners: Competition matters
Schaumans, Catherine - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 4, pp. 456-463
General Practitioners (GP) have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.
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Regional tenders on biosimilars in Italy: An empirical analysis of awarded prices
Curto, Sandro; Ghislandi, Simone; van de Vooren, Katelijne - In: Health Policy 116 (2014) 2, pp. 182-187
The goal of the present study is to assess the awarded prices and thus the real level of competition the regional …
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Is patient choice democratizing Swedish primary care?
Fredriksson, Mio - In: Health Policy 111 (2013) 1, pp. 95-98
Choice and competition reforms in healthcare often involve the idea of empowering patients through the mechanism of …
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Statutory health insurance competition in Europe: A four-country comparison
Thomson, Sarah; Busse, Reinhard; Crivelli, Luca; van de … - In: Health Policy 109 (2013) 3, pp. 209-225
This paper explores the goals and implementation of reforms introducing choice of and competition among insurers … competition can enhance efficiency in health care administration and delivery only if people have free choice of insurer (consumer … straightforward to put in place the conditions under which health insurance competition can enhance efficiency. Policy makers should …
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Consolidation and concentration in the German hospital market: The two sides of the coin
Schmid, Andreas; Ulrich, Volker - In: Health Policy 109 (2013) 3, pp. 301-310
In many countries, policy makers try to increase quality and efficiency in the hospital sector by fostering competition … concentration which is both a result of and a potential threat to more competition. …
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Dynamic analysis of interhospital collaboration and competition: Empirical evidence from an Italian regional health system
Mascia, Daniele; Di Vincenzo, Fausto; Cicchetti, Americo - In: Health Policy 105 (2012) 2, pp. 273-281
Policymakers stimulate competition in universalistic health-care systems while encouraging the formation of service … simultaneous collaboration and competition between hospitals within the Italian National Health Service, where important …
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Quasi-market and cost-containment in Beveridge systems: The Lombardy model of Italy
Brenna, Elenka - In: Health Policy 103 (2011) 2, pp. 209-218
In the very recent past, the Lombardy health care system – established in 1997 on the quasi market model – has caught the interest of researchers and politicians in different OECD countries11See for example the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, April 13, 2010, R2.. Its merits, compared to other...
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The new risk adjustment formula in Germany: Implementation and first experiences
Buchner, Florian; Goepffarth, Dirk; Wasem, Juergen - In: Health Policy 109 (2013) 3, pp. 253-262
In Germany risk adjustment is a core element of the regulatory framework of competition between sickness funds. It …
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The German Central Health Fund—Recent developments in health care financing in Germany
Göpffarth, Dirk; Henke, Klaus-Dirk - In: Health Policy 109 (2013) 3, pp. 246-252
subsidy from general revenue was introduced. The aims of the reform were: (1) intensifying competition, (2) gearing … competition towards quality and efficiency, and (3) increasing financial sustainability. This article describes the reform …
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