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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 545-563

limitations constrain my capacity to check how hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in …

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The effect of a hospital nurse staffing mandate on patient health outcomes: Evidence from California's minimum staffing regulation

Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Stephens Jr, Melvin; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 2, pp. 340-348

hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in … AB394 had the intended effect of decreasing patient/nurse ratios in hospitals that previously did not meet mandated … patient safety in affected hospitals. …

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Public employment and political pressure: The case of French hospitals

Clark, Andrew E.; Milcent, Carine - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1103-1112

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in not-for-profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to public hospitals …

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Who joins the network? Physicians’ resistance to take budgetary co-responsibility

Rischatsch, Maurus - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 109-121

Managed Care (MC) is expected to provide health care at a lower cost than conventional provision. Therefore, Switzerland intends to promote MC by forcing health insurers to write MC contracts and introducing budgetary co-responsibility for ambulatory care physicians. A discrete choice experiment...

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The spillover effects of Medicare managed care: Medicare Advantage and hospital utilization

Baicker, Katherine; Chernew, Michael E.; Robbins, Jacob A. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1289-1300

More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to improve the efficiency of health care delivery by promoting competition among private managed care plans. This paper explores the spillover effects of the Medicare Advantage...

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Supply-side and demand-side cost sharing in deregulated social health insurance: Which is more effective?

Trottmann, Maria; Zweifel, Peter; Beck, Konstantin - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 231-242

Microeconomic theory predicts that if patients are fully insured and providers are paid fee-for-service, utilization of medical services exceeds the efficient level (‘moral hazard effect’). In Switzerland, both demand-side and supply-side cost sharing have been introduced to mitigate this...

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A tale of two cities? The heterogeneous impact of medicaid managed care

Marton, James; Yelowitz, Aaron; Talbert, Jeffery C. - In: Journal of Health Economics 36 (2014) C, pp. 47-68

Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations is difficult because there is a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of their reimbursement incentives and other programmatic features. We examine how variation in reimbursement incentives and administration among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts...

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Making Medicare advantage a middle-class program

Glazer, Jacob; McGuire, Thomas G. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 2, pp. 463-473

This paper studies the role of Medicare's premium policy in sorting beneficiaries between traditional Medicare (TM) and managed care plans in the Medicare advantage (MA) program. Beneficiaries vary in their demand for care. TM fully accommodates demand but creates a moral hazard inefficiency. MA...

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