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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?

Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018

One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...

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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2009

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

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Should I wait or should I go? : travelling versus waiting for better healthcare

Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina; Verzulli, Rossella - 2021

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital …

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Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2014

We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that … increase average quality in the market. If a merger leads to hospital closure, the resulting effect on quality is positive …

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Incentives to Patients versus Incentives to Health Care Providers : The Users’ Perspective

Jelovac, Izabela - 2015

In theory, health care providers may adapt their professional behavior to the financial incentives driven by their remuneration. Our research question is whether the users of health care services anticipate such a behavior from their general practitioner (GP) and, if they do, what are the...

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