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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214544
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Explaining differentials in subsidy levels among hospital ownership types in Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2014
German hospitals receive subsidies for investment costs by federal states. Theoretically, these subsidies have to cover … the whole investment volume, but in fact only 50%-60% are covered. Balance sheet data show that public hospitals exhibit … higher levels of subsidies compared to for-profit hospitals. In this study, I examine the sources of this disparity by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437525
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The impact of structural and strategic competition on hospital quality
Wuckel, Christiane - 2022
relationship in a market with regulated prices that is characterized by a high number of hospitals and a diverse ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341757
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Causes of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
Healthcare utilization varies widely between regions. Yet, the causes of regional variation are still not well understood, and they can also differ between countries and institutional settings. We exploit patient migration to examine which share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603120
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The effects of competition on medical service provision
Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hehenkamp, Burkhard; Kokot, Johanna - 2016
We explore how competition between physicians affects medical service provision. Previous research has shown that, without competition, physicians deviate from patient-optimal treatment under payment systems like capitation and fee-for-service. While competition might reduce these distortions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549697
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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417198
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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233922
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Do higher hospital reimbursement prices improve quality of care?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2018
prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications … variation in quality indicators across hospitals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945027
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580168
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Explaining variations in breast cancer screening across European countries
Wübker, Ansgar - 2012
This paper explores variations in the uptake of breast cancer screening and associated factors influencing utilisation of mammography screening among women aged 50 to 69 years in 13 European countries. We focus on the relative importance of individual (e.g. age, education, etc.) and...
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