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algorithms with the purpose of creating incentives for an efficient and fair health care system. In this paper, we take a …
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U.S. health care spending in 2012 totaled $2.8 trillion or 17.2 percent of gross domestic product. Given the magnitude of health care spending, the large public sector role in health care, and the reforms being implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), we believe it...
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We analyze potential reforms to Medicaid financing through the lens of fiscal federalism. Because substantial dollars are at stake, both the economic and political sides of intergovernmental transfers have high relevance in this setting. We show that changes in Medicaid financing formulas can...
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results from a comparative review of 12 countries with alternative models of incentives and benefits, collected under the … differences in costs and outcomes do not seem strongly linked to differences in incentives embedded in national programs …
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organizational inertia in innovation, and suggest that temporary incentives may be effective at motivating improvements in long run … temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trimester of … the incentives were being paid, and this effect persisted at least 24 months or more after the incentives ended. These …
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We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting – a high-stakes but under-studied segment of … relatively better health. Despite the large financial incentives and behavioral response in a high mortality population, we are … highlight how improved financial incentives may be able to reduce healthcare spending, without negative consequences for …
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Measured in percentage points, the Affordable Care Act will, by 2015, add about fourteen times more to average marginal labor income tax rates nationwide than the Massachusetts health reform added to average rates in Massachusetts following its 2006 statewide health reform. The rate impacts are...
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The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health insurance market. While the individual market represents a small slice of the U.S. population, it has historically been the market segment with the lowest rates of take-up and greatest...
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This study exploits over 5,000 variations in subsidy generosity across ages and municipalities in Japan to examine how children respond to healthcare prices. We find that free care significantly increases outpatient spending, with price elasticities considerably smaller than for adults. Price...
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Perhaps more than any other sector of the economy, healthcare depends on government resources. As a result, many healthcare systems rely on the use of government monopsony power to decrease spending. The United States is a notable exception, where prices in large portions of the healthcare...
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