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Balance billing: the patients’ perspective

Kifmann, Mathias; Scheuer, Florian - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 14, pp. 1-14

We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be justified...

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Implementing personalized medicine with asymmetric information on prevalence rates

Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Juárez-Castelló, Carmelo A. - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 35, pp. 1-8

Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the interactions between pharmaceutical firms and healthcare...

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The impact of additive or substitutive clinical study design on the negotiated reimbursement for oncology pharmaceuticals after early benefit assessment in Germany

Dintsios, C. M.; Beinhauer, I. - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 7, pp. 1-25

Background: We analysed the impact of clinical study design for oncological pharmaceuticals on the subsequent price negotiations after early benefit assessment between pharmaceutical companies and the German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds. The analysis was conducted for...

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Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? : evidence from a video experiment

Daniels, Lotte; Marneffe, Wim - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more intended to perform defensive acts because of a higher perceived liability risk in Belgium. Methods We assigned 85 practicing gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists...

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Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality : evidence from the physiotherapy market

Pekola, Piia; Linnosmaa, Ismo; Mikkola, Hennamari - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 25, pp. 1-16

In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance … effect of the regulation and for this task we have defined the regulated and non-regulated firms and their quality before and …

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Regional differences in health care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Germany

Lange, Ansgar; Prenzler, Anne; Bachmann, Frank Oliver; … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 29, pp. 1-11

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district type, which reflects population density. Our research...

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Custom-made health-care : an experimental investigation

Keser, Claudia; Montmarquette, Claude; Schmidt, Martin; … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 41, pp. 1-12

in FFS patients' treatment. Conclusions: The results suggest that, in our experimental model, fee regulation can be used …

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Is health care a necessary or luxury product for Asian countries? : an answer using panel approach

Abdullah, S. M.; Siddiqua, Salina; Huque, Rumana - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-12

A number of studies have estimated the income elasticity of health care expenditure to identify whether health care is a necessary or luxury product. However, the issue has received less attention in developing countries, especially in Asian economies. The current study for the first time has...

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Proximity to death and health care expenditure increase revisited : a 15-year panel analysis of elderly persons

Wyl, Viktor von - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 9, pp. 1-16

Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of biological age, morbidity, or proximity to death as cost drivers are debated. Age-associated HCE growth can be studied across two dimensions: within fixed groups of persons with the same...

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The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany

Meng, Fan; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-10

Background Previous literature documents the direct and indirect economic costs of obesity, yet none has attempted to quantify the intangible costs of obesity. This study focuses on quantifying the intangible costs of one unit body mass index (BMI) increase and being overweight and obese in...

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