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Closing the gap: The impact of the medicaid primary care rate increase on access and health

Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly - 2017

The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...

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Can Pay-for-Performance to Primary Care Providers Stimulate Appropriate Use of Antibiotics?

Anell, Anders; Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria - 2016

tract infections (RTI). During 2006-2013, a subset of Swedish healthcare authorities introduced antibiotics-related P4P in …

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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform

Anell, Anders; Dackehag, Margareta; Dietrichson, Jens; … - 2022

Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. When care providers are paid prospectively, e.g., by a fixed sum per patient, existing inequalities may be sustained by the incentives to undertreat relatively unhealthy patients. To counter this, prospective...

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Patient Choice, Entry, and the Quality of Primary Care: Evidence from Swedish Reforms

Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Kjellsson, Gustav - 2018

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … heterogeneous impact of recent competition enhancing reforms in Sweden. The reforms led to substantially more entry of new providers …

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Does federalism induce patients' mobility across regions? Evidence from the Italian experience

Brenna, Elenka; Spandonaro, Federico - 2014

. We consider the competition between public and private hospitals - and the rules supervising the financial agreements …

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Consumer resistance against regulation: The case of health care

Zweifel, Peter; Telser, Harry; Vaterlaus, Stephan - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

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Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline

Hernäs, Sofia - 2023

Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores this question using Swedish administrative data, and a measure of occupational decline obtained from detailed US data on employment changes over almost 30 years. I investigate...

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Medical expenditure growth and the diffusion of medical technology

Polchlopek, Justin - 2011

the manner of diffusion of technology is critical, and when technology diffuses haphazardly, the effects on expenditure … medical technology-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of … understanding medical technology is through the use of total factor productivity, which, despite giving reasonable estimates of the …

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Mismeasurement in pay-for-performance: Evidence from an intervention to reduce health care spending in China

Wu, Bingxiao - 2014

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In 2005, China imposed a policy that penalizes hospitals with high drug sale percentage in the total revenue, with the intent to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique...

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Information presentation and consumer choice: Evidence from Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) success rates reports

Wu, Bingxiao - 2014

Reproductive Technology (ART) reports. I find that after CDC releases quality information on both "success rate" and "multiple …

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