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Who cares when you close down? : the effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
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....
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Medical Technology : Electromedicine Driving Healthcare
Heng, Stefan - 2015
Innovative products form the foundation for the international success of electromedical technology in Germany. This is shown both in the strong sales achieved by the German medical technology segment compared with other industrial countries and the export share of more than 70%, which even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015990
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Non-urgent Visits and Emergency Department Congestion : Patients' Choice and Incentive Mechanisms
Sharma, Shrutivandana; Xu, Ying; Gupta, Manu Kumar; … - 2019
A major reason behind crowding in emergency departments (ED) is non-urgent patients' visits to ED. In this paper we investigate how non-urgent ED visits are influenced by patients' imperfect perception of their urgency and their self-interested choice, and we explore interventions that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103358
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Dealing with minor illnesses : the link between primary care characteristics and First Aid Clinics' attendances
Donatini, Andrea; Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, Matteo - 2014
The reformulation of existing boundaries between primary and secondary care, in order to shift selected services traditionally provided by Emergency Departments to community-based alternatives has determined a variety of organisational solutions aimed at reducing the ED overcrowding. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729111
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GPs and hospital expenditures : should we keep expenditure containment programs alive?
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina - 2012
but also for cost containment purposes. In this paper, we analyse the impact of removing financial incentives in primary … compared to that of two separate control groups, namely: GPs working in districts that grant incentives for the entire period … Participants"). The comparison between treatment and control groups shows that removing incentives does not result in a worse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734293
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in physicians' adherence to hospital choices. The spillover effects create cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011519140
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570769
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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to … improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of … date has not succeeded in distinguishing between the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives, which are usually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741498
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How do Non-Monetary Performance Incentives for Physicians Affect the Quality of Medical Care? - A Laboratory Experiment
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to … improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of … date has not succeeded in distinguishing between the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives, which are usually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156898
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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
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...
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