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An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? Short- and Long-Run Effects of Pharmaceutical Patents on U.S. Health Care Expenditures

Johnson, Hilary S.; Johnson, Daniel K. N. - 2014

This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between the short- and long-run impacts. To measure these relationships quantitatively, we focus on patents as a key factor driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured...

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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems

Aspalter, Christian - 2012

This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...

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Phantoms in the Snow : Canadians Use of Health Care Services in the United States

Katz, Steven J.; Cardiff, Karen; Pascali, Marina; … - 2005

To examine the extent to which Canadian residents seek medical care across the border, we collected data about Canadians' use of services from ambulatory care facilities and hospitals located in Michigan, New York State, and Washington State during 1994-1998. We also collected information from...

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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits

Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...

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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and patient demand. The model is identified by...

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Socio-Economic Disparities in US Healthcare Spending : The Role of Public vs Private Insurance

Capatina, Elena - 2018

In the US healthcare system, patients of different socio-economic status (SES) often receive disparate treatment for similar conditions. Prior work documents this phenomenon for particular treatments/conditions, but we take a system-wide view and examine socioeconomic disparities in spending for...

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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...

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Financing Health Care Delivery

Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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Plugging gaps in payment systems : evidence from the take-up of new medicare billing codes

Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021

Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...

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Comparison of Health Care Utilization : U.S. versus Canada

Pylypchuk, Yuriy; Sarpong, Eric - 2014

(CCHS) for Canada. Study Design. We use descriptive and multivariate methods to examine differences in health care … utilize health care in Canada than in the U.S. The differences were especially pronounced for having a usual source of care …-born residents were more likely to use health care in Canada than in the U.S. The descriptive results were confirmed in multivariate …

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