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Buying efficiency : optimal hospital payment in the presence of double upcoding

Spika, Simon B.; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 38, pp. 1-14

Background: With DRG payments, hospitals can game the system by ’upcoding’ true patient’s severity of illness. This … paper takes into account that upcoding can be performed by the chief physician and hospital management, with the extent of …-agent mechanism, the distortion due to upcoding is shown to accumulate, whereas in the bargaining case it is avoided at the level of …

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Hospital reimbursement in the presence of cherry picking and upcoding

Savva, Nicos; Debo, Laurens; Shumsky, Robert A. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 69 (2023) 11, pp. 6777-6799

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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior

Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2013

We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors place and time of...

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Health service gatekeepers

Malcomson, James - 2003

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must...

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Pay for performance and quality in the health sector

Siciliani, Luigi - In: Rivista di politica economica 104 (2015) 1/3, pp. 7-39

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Gaming can be sustainable too! : using social representation theory to examine the moderating effects of tourism diversification on residents' tax paying behavior

Suess, Courtney; Mody, Makarand - In: Tourism management : research, policies, practice 56 (2016), pp. 20-39

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A policy-based analysis of the impacts of casino gambling

Richard, Brian W. - In: The journal of gambling business and economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-40

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Multitasking at work : do firms get what they pay for? : rewarding only one dimension of performance may result in employees ignoring other dimensions

Bartel, Ann - 2017

To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a...

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Muddled information

Frankel, Alex; Kartik, Navin - In: Journal of political economy 127 (2019) 4, pp. 1739-1776

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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013

Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...

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