Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), … - 2014
This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …