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This paper applies the five modified standard criteria generally used in economics for assessing system performances to gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed...
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USA ist ein Grossteil der Bevölkerung in unterschiedlichen Formen von Managed Care Organisationen versichert, deshalb soll …
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In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...
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combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics — the 1957-58 "Asian Flu … heterogeneity in the underlying severity of these two shocks across counties, we find no relationship between Medicaid eligibility … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to …
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We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years …
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providing insurance. Using data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), I exploit exogenous variation in Medicaid … targeted households, but it did not causally increase total expenditures among beneficiaries. Rather, Medicaid expansion shifted …
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The Risk Adjustment Reform Act of 2001 mandates that a health-status-based risk adjustment mechanism has to be implemented in Germany's Statutory Health Insurance system by January 1, 2007. German parliament decided this as with the existing demographic risk adjustment model, that means there is...
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