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markets, are less likely to provide charity care, increase the quantity of healthcare provided, and become more selective of …
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copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services believed to be of low value and overused (sleep studies, endoscopies … insurance claims data, we estimate the change in low value healthcare service utilization among beneficiaries before and after … public and private healthcare policies as V-BID principles are rapidly proliferating in healthcare markets. …
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trade tensions on the healthcare sector and the economy at large through secondary impacts on, for example, adoption rates … of these two external shocks from the perspective of the healthcare sector. The paper also analyses likely impacts of the … as active pharmaceutical ingredients, as well as technological components including those required for 5G adoption. While …
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This paper explores the potential externality of welfare payments under the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program during times of high job destruction rates and unemployment rates on the spread and mortality of COVID-19. Using data for all US counties over the year 2020 and applying a...
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We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … competition in terms of decrease in mortality after the reform. We estimate a duration model for mortality stratified at the …
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This paper analyzes the potential unintended consequences and incentive effects of the Affordable Care Act's minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations, which are designed to guarantee that a specific percentage of health insurance premiums are spent on medical care and activities that improve...
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.Findings: Findings suggest there were significant changes in average prices in healthcare technology and healthcare services stocks … exchange on healthcare stock prices, as a tool to mitigate COVID-19 price effects. Important contributions are in terms of … assessing (i) the effect of the temporary short selling ban on restricted healthcare stocks, (ii) the effect of COVID-19 cases …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted primary and secondary prevention efforts as well as routine cancer care including diagnosis and treatment. The number of cancer-related procedures declined across countries. Many of the OECD countries also faced challenges in maintaining and further improving...
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Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
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