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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide from 1996 to 2017. We employ a flexible generalized … the impacts on negotiated prices and costs. We also find large heterogeneous responses across hospitals that depend on: (1 …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …
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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic : a qualitative analysis
Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International journal of management and economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217
During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...
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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19
Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took … efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …
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Polarized politics of pandemic response and the Covid-19 connectedness across the U.S. states
Akovalı, Umut; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2020
response to the pandemic. Moving to the analysis of spillovers/connectedness of Covid-19 cases across the states, we apply the …
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Medical Loss Ratio Regulation Under the Affordable Care Act
Harrington, Scott E. - 2012
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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Mid-Epidemic Case Fatality Rate - The Case of COVID-19 : Reducing the Impact of Wrong Risk Perception
Nath, Purnendu - 2020
In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality risk being presented by both the media and some public health information providers is often misleading and so increasing the risk of suboptimal policy decisions and lower than desired voluntary compliance rates. We make the following...
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Priority-Setting, Cost-Effectiveness, and the Affordable Care Act
Persad, Govind - 2018
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the most important health law statute in American history, yet much of the most prominent legal scholarship examining it has focused on the merits of the court challenges it has faced rather than delving into the details of its priority-setting provisions. In...
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An Unnecessary Proposal : A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines
Baachus, James - 2021
In a sign of their increasing frustration with global efforts to ensure that all people everywhere will have access to COVID-19 vaccines, several developing countries have asked other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join them in a sweeping waiver of the intellectual property...
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Why It's Called the Affordable Care Act
Bagley, Nicholas; Horwitz, Jill R. - 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) requires most Americans to obtain health insurance for themselves and their dependents by 2014. In a recent essay, Professor Douglas Kahn and Professor Jeffrey Kahn take issue with one of several justifications for what has...
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Spillover of COVID-19 : Impact on the Global Economy
Ozili, Peterson K - 2020
How did a health crisis translate to an economic crisis? Why did the spread of the coronavirus bring the global economy to its knees? The answer lies in two methods by which coronavirus stifled economic activities. First, the spread of the virus encouraged social distancing which led to the...
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