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Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost reduction. The purpose of this work is to understand how the effect of such reforms depends on the intensity of local competition. We build a nonprice competition model to examine the...
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Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost reduction. The purpose of this work is to understand how the effect of such reforms depends on the intensity of local competition. We build a nonprice competition model to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079372
While France has a universal public health insurance system, the coverage it provides is incomplete and the vast majority the French population has private complementary health insurance. Among OECD countries, the share of health care financed by private insurance is third highest behind the US...
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quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these … on a discrete choice experiment to elicit heterogeneity in physicians’ preferences for the financial and non … that physicians can be grouped in four homogeneous groups with specific preference patterns. Using policy simulation, we …
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quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their …
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patients, and performance-based payment schemes in primary care need to be stepped up to respond to the increasing prevalence …
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sector 2 where physicians can freely choose fees. Patients who undergo a sequential search process for the best medical offer … develop a reservation fee decision rule. We analyzed physicians' decisions to work in sector 1 or in sector 2, and their …
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quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their …
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