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How payment systems affect physicians' provision behaviour : an experimental investigation
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Selten, Reinhard; Wiesen, Daniel - 2009
physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS. -- Physician payment system ; laboratory experiment ; incentives ; fee-for-service ; capitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943860
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How Payment Systems Affect Physicians' Provision Behavior - An Experimental Investigation
Hennig‐Schmidt, Heike - 2009
physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157448
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How payment systems affect physicians' provision behaviour : an experimental investigation
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Selten, Reinhard; Wiesen, Daniel - 2011 - Revised version of discussion paper 29/2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126083
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Germany's Healthcare System : Funding, Resource Allocation, Provider Payment, Efficiency, and Access
Michaeli, Daniel T.; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Thomas - 2022
Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085051
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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900791
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Moving Towards more Sustainable Healthcare Financing in Germany
Brandt, Nicola - 2008
The aim of the recent healthcare reform was to increase the sustainability of healthcare finances, by reducing its negative impact on employment and increasing cost-effectiveness via enhanced competition. Higher budget contributions will help decouple healthcare finances from labour income a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443910
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Mehr Staat im Gesundheitswesen? : acht Thesen zu einer zur Unzeit aufkeimenden Systemdebatte
Pimpertz, Jochen - 2020
addition, there are indications that the customarily high frequency of contact between German patients and their physicians, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224915
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Causes of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
Healthcare utilization varies widely between regions. Yet, the causes of regional variation are still not well understood, and they can also differ between countries and institutional settings. We exploit patient migration to examine which share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603120
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Demographic and geographic determinants of regional physician supply
Kuhn, Michael; Ochsen, Carsten - 2009
Against the backdrop of an ongoing debate in most countries about the geographic (mal-)distribution of physician practices, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework to analyze how physician supply at regional level depends on demographic (population size, age structure, fertility and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887017
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A pharmaceutical innovation: Is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315493