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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Occupational mismatch and moonlighting among Spanish physicians: do couples matter?
Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - 2008
physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Errors in survey based quality evaluation variables in efficiency models of primary care physicians
Kittelsen, Sverre A. C.; Galtung Kjæserud, Guri; … - 2001
Efficiency analyses in the health care sector are often criticised for not incorporating quality variables. The definition of quality of primary health care has many aspects, and it is inevitably also a question of the patients’ perception of the services received. This paper uses variables...
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How Payment Systems Affect Physicians' Provision Behaviour – An Experimental Investigation
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Selten, Reinhard; Wiesen, Daniel - 2011
Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics … capitation payments on physicians’ supply of medical services. In our experiment, physicians choose quantities of medical … services for patients with different states of health. We find that physicians provide significantly more services under fee …
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Contact decision and frequency decision: an econometric model of the demand for ambulatory services
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Ulrich, Volker - 1992
The decision to contact a physician and the decision, how often to contact a physician, are based on different decision makers. We introduce a negative binominal distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decision process as different stochastic processes, and takes also care...
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Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen: Garanten für Qualität und Effizienz
Köhler, Andreas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 86 (2006) 5, pp. 292-295
Bisher stand bei den Reformen der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung die Finanzierungsseite im Vordergrund, nun will sich die Bundesregierung auf die Leistungsseite konzentrieren. Wie kann mehr Wettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen etabliert werden? Welche Erfahrungen wurden damit im Ausland gemacht?...
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Entwicklung und Anwendung eines Modells zur Messung von ordnungspolitischem Wandel im Gesundheitswesen: Auswirkungen der gesundheitspolitischen Reformgesetzgebung auf Perzeption un...
Klinke, Sebastian - 2005
health care legislation up to the year 2003 as well as qualitative interviews with head physicians in hospitals (Chefärzte … (federal legis-lation) to a micro-level investigation of implementation (head physicians) the author shows to what extent …
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Ökonomische Analyse der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung: Theoretische Modellierung und empirische Ergebnisse
Schneider, Udo - 2001
The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information asymmetries the actions that physician and patient...
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Primäre Arbeitspolitik und Gewerkschaften im Gesundheitswesen: Der Ärztestreik 2006 als Beispiel primärer Arbeitspolitik in Zeiten tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche
Martens, Helmut - 2008
Der Streik der Krankenhausärztinnen entwickelte sich nach dem Ausscheiden der Tarifgemeinschaft der Länder aus den Verhandlungen um den TvöD im Sommer 2005 aus selbstorganisierten Aktivitäten junger KrankenhausärtzInnen neben Abwehrkämpfen von ver.di-Mitgliedern aus anderen Berufsgruppen....
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