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This paper analyses the decision to invest in quality by a hospital in an environment where doctors are devoted workers … investment in new technology and the effort of the medical staff. Hospital services are paid on the basis of their marginal cost … purchasing rule so that for the hospital it is not always optimal to anticipate the investment decision …
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The use of prospective payment system in health care has mixed evidences as concerns its effectiveness. On the one side it avoid the problem of misreporting cost, but has the downside effect that, if hospitals might choose which patients to treat, competition might become unfair and the whole...
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Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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