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Vertical Alignment between Hospitals and Physicians as a Bargaining Response to Commercial Insurance Markets
McCarthy, Ian M. - 2016
The relationship between physicians and hospitals has dramatically changed over the last decade, with the employer-employee model supplanting the traditional model of private physicians with hospital admitting privileges. We examine the motivation for this form of vertical integration by...
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Hospital market concentration and discrimination of patients
Dewenter, Ralf; Jaschinski, Thomas; Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2012
In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the probability of discrimination of patients with...
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When Past Is Not Prologue : The Weakness of the Economic Evidence against Health Insurance Mergers
Manne, Geoffrey A. - 2017
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Generalized insurer bargaining
Arie, Guy; Grieco, Paul L. E.; Rachmilevitch, Shiran - 2017
estimation, can predict Nash overpricing: prices that exceed the treatment’s value. We develop an alternative model based on …
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490826
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493156
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Competition between health maintenance organizations and nonintegrated health insurance companies in health insurance markets
Baranes, Edmond; Bardey, David - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 36, pp. 1-9
This article examines a model of competition between two types of health insurer: Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and nonintegrated insurers. HMOs vertically integrate health care providers and pay them at a competitive price, while nonintegrated health insurers work as indemnity plans...
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Disadvantaging Rivals : Vertical Integration in the Pharmaceutical Market
Gray, Charles; Alpert, Abby E.; Sood, Neeraj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The pharmaceutical market has experienced a massive wave of vertical integration between pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health insurers in recent years. Using a unique dataset on insurer-PBM contracts, we document increasing vertical integration in Medicare Part D-vertically integrated...
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Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets
Cuesta, José Ignacio - 2024
We measure the impacts of vertical integration between insurers and hospitals. In the Chilean market, where half of private hospital capacity is vertically integrated, integration increases inpatient care spending by 6 percent and decreases consumer surplus and total welfare. Integrated insurers...
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