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Entry and competition of healthcare providers in Slovakia : a spatial analysis
Mandžák, Peter; Lábaj, Martin - 2020
We study the relationship between market size and a number of firms in several healthcare professions in Slovakia to provide a new evidence about their entry decisions and a toughness of competition in the market. The size of a local market to support the entry of the first general practitioner...
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Healthcare to the Home : Enabling Distributed Health Service Delivery by Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Exploration
Auerswald, Philip E. - 2020
Increasing the overall share of health services provided directly to the home constitutes a significant—and as yet mostly unrealized—opportunity to improve healthcare in the United States. Home healthcare as I define it in this paper includes four service models: (1) medical house calls or...
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The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery : Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices
Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
US healthcare is undergoing a period of substantial change, with many hospitals vertically integrating with physician practices. Such integration could improve quality by promoting care coordination, but could also worsen it by impacting care delivery. Evidence on how physicians alter their...
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Health economics for low-income countries
Mwabu, Germano M. - 2007
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low-income countries. The models could help address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810949
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Does competition increase economic efficiency in Swedish county councils?
Rudholm, Nikas; Nordmark, Arvid; Marklund, Per-Olov - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 77-91
The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years there has been a movement were local county councils have opted to allow more of the production to be performed by alternative producers (i.e. private firms, cooperatives etc.)....
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Analyzing regional variation in health care utilization using (rich) household microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417198
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Health Economics for Low-Income Countries
Mwabu, Germano - 2007
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low-income countries. The models could help address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776897
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Prices for Medical Services Vary Within Hospitals, But Vary More Across Them
Wilson, Nathan - 2018
Using commercial claims for 2012-2013 from Colorado's All-Payer Claims Database, we examine how medical service prices … vary for five hospital-based procedures and the complexity adjusted inpatient price. We find that prices vary substantially … service in the same hospital. If prices converged to the lowest rate each hospital receives, commercial expenditures would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906687
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Provider Competition and Over-Utilization in Health Care
Boone, Jan - 2014
This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in each case. We argue that each of these can be optimal...
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