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Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

Afendulis, Christopher - 2011

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

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Hospitals As Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand

Goldman, Dana - 2008

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

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Power in a Theory of the Firm

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 1997

contingent" on them making the right investment; ii) ownership has adverse effects on the incentive to specialize. " The theory …

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Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market

Ho, Katherine - 2005

investigates the causes and welfare effects of the observed hospital networks. A simple profit maximization model explains roughly …

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The Anatomy of Health Insurance

Cutler, David M. - 1999

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...

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Economics and Mental Health

Frank, Richard G. - 1999

This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health economics only more so: uncertainty and variation in treatments are greater; the assumption of patient self-interested behavior is more dubious; response to financial incentives such...

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Understanding Algorithmic Discrimination in Health Economics Through the Lens of Measurement Errors

Basu, Anirban; Hammarlund, Noah; Khor, Sara; Bansal, Aasthaa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There is growing concern that the increasing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based systems may exacerbate health disparities through discrimination. We provide a hierarchical definition of discrimination consisting of algorithmic discrimination arising from predictive scores...

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The Welfare Analysis of Product Innovations with an Application to CT Scanners

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1985

The main goal of this paper is to put forward a methodology for the measurement of product innovations using a value metric, i.e., equating the "magnitude" of innovations with the welfare gains that they generate. This research design is applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners,...

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A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics

Grossman, Michael - 1976

In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in progress. The survey reflects in part my own research interests and biases and is not meant to be comprehensive. Four topics are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and...

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Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity

Glied, Sherry A. - 2008

This paper examines the efficiency and equity implications of alternative health care system financing strategies. Using data across the OECD, I find that almost all financing choices are compatible with efficiency in the delivery of health care, and that there has been no consistent and...

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