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Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?
Pavcnik, Nina - 2000
Despite the importance of patient insurance in the market for prescription pharmaceuticals, little is known about the … pricing using a unique policy experiment from Germany. Starting in 1989, a maximum reimbursement for a given medicine replaced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470878
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Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?
Pavcnik, Nina - 2021
Despite the importance of patient insurance in the market for prescription pharmaceuticals, little is known about the … pricing using a unique policy experiment from Germany. Starting in 1989, a maximum reimbursement for a given medicine replaced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221509
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Stress on the ward : an empirical study of the nonlinear relationship between organizational workload and service quality
Kuntz, Ludwig; Mennicken, Roman; Scholtes, Stefan - 2011
We discuss the impact of organizational workload on professional service outcomes, such as survival rates in hospitals. The prevailing view in the literature is that service quality deteriorates when organizational workload increases. In contrast, we argue that the relationship between workload...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580291
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294521
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Pharmaceutical prices: the impact of the launch strategy : an analysis of German data
Böhler, Yvonne-Beatrice; Lamping, Christian; Wichardt, … - 2019
This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the … pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103333
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Pharmaceutical prices : the impact of the launch strategy - an analysis of German data
Böhler, Yvonne-Beatrice; Lamping, Christian; Wichardt, … - 2019 - This Version: September 24, 2019
This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the … pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119750
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On competition and regulation in health care systems
Nuscheler, Robert - 2005
Health care systems are under reform in many countries. This typically involves a shift towards more competition. But still, markets are highly regulated. This study analyzes competition and regulatory measures in four important fields using the modern tools of microeconomic theory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965185
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Do pharmaceutical prices respond to insurance?
Pavcnik, Nina - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001507820
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Health care reform and relative performance evaluation of hospitals in Germany
Staat, Matthias; Hammerschmidt, Mark - In: Ökonomie und Politikberatung im Spannungsfeld von …, (pp. 221-48). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001580971
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269123