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Zerth refers to the ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the overall … years, he states. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within … different forms of organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest …
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, according to the physicians’ perspectives and experiences. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a qualitative survey design, 24 … physicians were interviewed. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to select the participants. Thematic analysis approach was … social media to tacit knowledge flow among physicians. The themes included socialising, practising, networking, storytelling …
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explain the need for the implementation of decentralization of Indonesia social health insurance (INA-Medicare), with particular emphasis for Aceh Province. First, it discusses the inconsistency of Act on National Social Security System (ANSSS) to the 1945...
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Abstract Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) are a widely used arrangement that allow employees to pay for qualified out-of-pocket health expenses with pre-tax dollars. The tax preference given to FSAs has been controversial and recent health care law (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
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We compare and contrast the labor market and distributional impact of three common approaches to state and federal health insurance expansion: public insurance expansions, refundable tax credits for low income people, and employer and individual mandates. We draw on existing estimates from the...
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Approximately 100 million elderly will enter Medicare over the next 25 years. We consider the potential benefits of interventions that would reduce or eliminate the most important risk factors for disease and spending. Effective control of hypertension could reduce health care spending $890...
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Purpose – Healthcare costs have increased considerably over the past decades around the world. Major contributors to this trend are expensive medical technologies. The purpose of this paper is to use a case study approach to understand how organizational and country level factors influence...
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Purpose – This article aims to investigate how R&D employees use their social networks to acquire user information and how this information is used in the development of new products. Design/methodology/approach – A single case study was conducted within a business unit at a multinational...
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