This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of … substitution probability. Based on 540,000 drug purchases by 60,000 patients we find that the probability of switching to a generic … substantially depend on whether patients face a copayment for their drug purchase and thus personally financially benefit from …

investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a …