This paper examines the impact of health insurance expansion on medical liability costs using the case of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion has increased the demand for medical services, but in doing so it may also have increased physicians' liability in...

Fee equalization in health care brings under a unique tariff several medical treatments, coded under different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). The aim is to improve healthcare quality and efficiency by discouraging unnecessary, but better-paid, treatments. We evaluate its effectiveness on...

In an effort to reduce the amount of compensation available to persons injured by medical malpractice and other torts, opponents of the civil justice system are proposing to limit claimants' recovery for future care expenses to the maximum annual out-of-pocket limit under the Affordable Care Act...

States have been enacting tort reforms to reduce the liability of physicians conducting malpractice. However, tort reform may create a moral hazard because physicians may take less care due to reduced liability. This paper investigates whether physician moral hazard presents after tort reform. I...

Introduction to economics of infectious disease / Jenny Roberts -- Choosing the first line drug for malaria treatment: how can cost-effectiveness analysis inform policy? / Catherine Goodman ... [et al.] -- Economic issues related to antimicrobial resistance / Ramanan Laxinarayan -- Economic...

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...

Using administrative panel data of health insurants, we estimate the effects of low birth weight on health service utilization among children and young adults between birth and 21 years old. To account for time-invariant heterogeneity of mothers, we use sibling fixed- effects estimation. We find...

In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection....

Jegliche Veränderungen im Inanspruchnahmeverhalten bei der Wahl der Art der Pflege von einer günstigeren hin zu einer teureren Versorgungsform gehen mit Auswirkungen auf die zukünftige Ausgabenentwicklung der gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung einher. Dabei ist ein verändertes...