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Physician behavior under prospective payment schemes : evidence from artefactual field and lab experiments
Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; Seebauer, Michael - 2017
Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their … physicians take into account the payo s of the third party, which can lead to underprovision of medical services. We conduct a …
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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German dat
Schmitz, Hendrik (contributor) - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785047
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...
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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213324
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The Effects of Detailing on Prescribing Decisions Under Quality Uncertainty
Ching, Andrew T.; Ishihara, Masakazu - 2010
manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …
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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? – Empirical Evidence with German Data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264745
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The impact of Colombia's pension and health insurance systems on informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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Regulated Age-Based Pricing in Subsidized Health Insurance : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Orsini, Joe - 2017
We study age-rating restrictions in the health insurance marketplaces introduced by the Affordable Care Act. Because most buyers are subsidized, although age-rating restrictions affect pre-subsidy premiums, participation is primarily driven by subsidy generosity rather than pricing decisions....
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
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