Takahara, Tsuyoshi - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 57, pp. 1-11
show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals’ rent extraction due to low-severity patients) and the shift … in the level of cost reduction efforts for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by …