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Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation
Felder, Stefan; Olbrich, Anja - 2009
reinforcement of physician liability for off-label use may be the preferred instrument for achieving dynamic efficiency. The … liability threat reduces the demand for off-label use, giving manufacturers an appropriate incentive to invest in extended … approval. By contrast, patent prolongation does not affect physicians' prescription decisions and increases the likelihood of …
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Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation
Felder, Stefan; Olbrich, Anja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
reinforcement of physician liability for off-label use may be the preferred instrument for achieving dynamic efficiency. The … liability threat reduces the demand for off-label use, giving manufacturers an appropriate incentive to invest in extended … approval. By contrast, patent prolongation does not affect physicians' prescription decisions and increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036054
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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? – Empirical Evidence with German Data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
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How do Non-Monetary Performance Incentives for Physicians Affect the Quality of Medical Care? – A Laboratory Experiment
Kairies, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013
: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294949
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance: Evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany: New experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...
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Paying for the view? How nursing home prices affect quality of care
Heger, Dörte; Herr, Annika; Mensen, Anne - 2018
Increasing long-term care demand raises the need of high quality care in nursing homes. This study analyses whether higher prices have a causal effect on quality of care in Swiss nursing homes and assesses the extent of cross-subsidization between different price components. We use...
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Smoking in Germany: Stylized Facts, Behavioral Models, and Health Policy
Göhlmann, Silja; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008
It is well known that smoking causes severe adverse health effects, and it seems evident that governments are justified or even obliged to implement measures of tobacco control to mitigate these effects. Yet, as this paper argues with a distinct focus on Germany, the three most important and...
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Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector
Augurzky, Boris; Engel, Dirk; Schmidt, Christoph M.; … - 2009
This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its development over time. We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of hospital data, our models allow for state...
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Is there a Future for Small Hospitals in Germany?
Augurzky, Boris; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyse the financial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of financial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We find that, on...
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