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Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards

Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

If profit maximization is the objective of a firm, new information about quality should affect firm behavior only through its effects on market demand. I consider an alternate model in which suppliers are motivated by a desire to perform well in addition to profit. The introduction of quality...

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The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sasso, Anthony T. Lo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

hospitals on insurance coverage. We construct a long panel of metropolitan area and state-level data on hospital uncompensated …

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A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment

Bloom, David; Bärnighausen, Till; Humair, Salal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Despite recent international efforts to increase antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage, it is estimated that more than 5 million people who need ART in developing countries do not receive such treatment. Shortages of human resources to treat HIV/AIDS (HRHA) are one of the main constraints to...

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End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing

Dor, Avi; Pauly, Mark V.; Eichleay, Margaret A.; Held, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

End-stage renal disease (ESRD), or kidney failure, is a debilitating, costly, and increasingly common medical condition. Little is known about how different financing approaches affect ESRD outcomes and delivery of care. This paper presents results from a comparative review of 12 countries with...

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Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?

Christensen, Michael C.; Remler, Dahlia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT markets interact and exacerbate each other to create...

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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Cutler, David M.; Huckman, Robert S.; Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic...

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The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Grossman, Michael; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We estimate the impacts of the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan in March 1995 on the health of infants. Prior to NHI, government workers (the control group) possessed health insurance policies with comprehensive coverage for births and infant medical care services....

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Expanding Patients' Property Rights In Their Medical Records

Baker, Laurence C.; Bundorf, Kate; Kessler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Although doctors and hospitals own their patients' medical records, state and federal laws require that they provide … patients with a copy at "reasonable cost." We examine the effects of state laws that cap the fees that doctors and hospitals … switch doctors and the prices of new- and existing-patient visits. We also examine the effect of laws on hospitals' adoption …

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The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics

Vernon, John A.; Hughen, W. Keener - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance...

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Incentives in HMOs

Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to...

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