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Mit maerkischen Innovationen die ambulante Versorgung gestalten
Helming, Hans-Joachim - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 282-292
, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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Aerztemangel im laendlichen Raum – Neue Anreizstrukturen und innovative Versorgungsmodelle als Ausweg? Zur Bedeutung einer patientenorientierten Steuerung
Zerth, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 269-281
In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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Rahmenbedingungen fuer eine effektive Versorgungssteuerung in Stadt und Land
Greß, Stefan; Stegmüller, Klaus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 259-268
General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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The Impact of Physician Preferences and Patient Habits on the Diffusion of New Drugs
Johannesson, Magnus; Lundin, Douglas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
diuretics and beta-blockers. We use a prescription micro dataset where both patients and physicians can be followed over time …
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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
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Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D
Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets that control adverse selection and assure adequate access and coverage. We model Part D enrollment and plan choice assuming a discrete dynamic decision...
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: Hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D
Kesternich, Iris; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1313-1324
aggregate level. We then analyze predictions at the individual level, in particular how insurance demand varies with observable …
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Plan selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative data
Heiss, Florian; Leive, Adam; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1325-1344
We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans. Our analysis of administrative data on medical claims in Medicare...
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Effects of geographical accessibility on the use of outpatient care services: quasi-experimental evidence from administrative panel data
Elek, P.; Varadi, B.; Varga, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014
effect on case numbers, possibly caused by supplier-induced demand. By combining a fixed effect logit model and a fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086689
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: Hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D
Kesternich, Iris; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
aggregate level. We then analyze predictions at the individual level, in particular how insurance demand varies with observable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583207