The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

Performance-based contracting is particularly challenging in health care, where multiple agents, information asymmetries and other market failures compound the critical contracting concern of multitasking. As performance-based contracting grows in developing countries, it is critical to better...

Evaluations are key to learning and accountability yet the quality of those evaluations are critical to their usefulness. We assessed the methodological quality of global health program evaluations commissioned or conducted by five major funders and published between 2009 and 2014. From a...

Worker shortages are common in many industries. This paper examines the effect of government subsidies to address these shortages in the context of a reform that tied Medicaid payments to nursing home staffing levels. We find that the reform substantially increased staffing, especially for...

New or restructured healthcare infrastructures are a typical risky investment, which can be financed in many different and competing ways. Public Private Partnership and project financing techniques are increasingly recognized as an useful and appropriate device.Risk identification, transfer,...

For much of the last seventy-plus years, healthcare providers in the United States have been paid under the fee-for-service system, where providers are reimbursed for procedures performed, not outcomes obtained. The result has been a system that incentivizes resource consumption, not health...

Rationale: In the health economic literature, many statements on the allocation of health care resources can be found showing an appreciation of the two criteria of efficiency and justice or fairness as two values which are to weighed against each other in case of conflict. Objective: This paper...

Ageing populations require larger healthcare facilities, in spite of growing public budget constraints, inducing to wonder whether we can afford what we increasingly need, accompanying sustainable and careful demography.New healthcare infrastructural investments, compliant with Eurostat rules,...

Ageing populations require larger healthcare facilities, in spite of growing public budget constraints, inducing to wonder whether we can afford what we increasingly need, accompanying sustainable and careful demography.New healthcare infrastructures, compliant with Eurostat rules, may not be...