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Measuring the relationship between costs and outcomes: The example of Acute Myocardial Infarction in German hospitals
Stargardt, Tom; Schreyögg, Jonas; Kondofersky, Ivan - 2012
In this paper, we propose a methodological approach to measure the relationship between hospital costs and health … ensure the available information is exploited. To demonstrate its application, data on mortality following hospital treatment … in hospital costs by 100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between …
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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
- the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …
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Optimal cost reimbursement of health insurers to reduce risk selection
Kifmann, Mathias; Lorenz, Normann - 2005
In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296873
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The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) and its implications for access to health care and medical expenditure: Evidence from rural China
Liu, Dan; Tsegai, Daniel - 2011
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to illness-led poverty and poor state of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in the NCMS. This paper investigates the impact of the NCMS...
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Another perspective on the high uninsured-rate in the USA: Crowding out of long term health insurance by the institutional setting of the U.S. health insurance system
Läufer, Ines - 2014
In the USA, previous to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, about 50 million people under 65 years didn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491458
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The Theory of the Demand for Health Insurance
Nyman, John A. - 2001
Conventional theory holds that moral hazard - the additional health care purchased as a result of becoming insured - is an opportunistic price response and is welfare-decreasing because the value of the additional health care purchased is less than its costs. The theory of the demand for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263363
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Employment-contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women: evidence from married women with breast cancer
Bradley, Cathy J.; Neumark, David; Luo, Zhehui; … - 2005
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267604
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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2008
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - 2008
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance offers in explaining the motherhood wage gap. Researchers have been aware of the existence of a motherhood gap for many years; yet, the literature has failed to address the...
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Self-employment and the role of health insurance
Gumus, Gulcin; Regan, Tracy L. - 2009
We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a spouse. Next, we examine a series of tax deductions...
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