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Competition and hospital quality : evidence from a French natural experiment
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2017
We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … competition in terms of decrease in mortality after the reform. We estimate a duration model for mortality stratified at the …
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Medical Loss Ratio Regulation Under the Affordable Care Act
Harrington, Scott E. - 2012
consumer choice, increased market concentration, and less innovation to better align consumer, provider, and health plan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097468
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Early COVID-19 Policy Response on Healthcare Equity Prices
Gurrib, Ikhlaas - 2021
Purpose: This study investigates the implementation of the short selling ban policy imposed by the Italian stock exchange on healthcare stock prices, as a tool to mitigate COVID-19 price effects. Important contributions are in terms of assessing (i) the effect of the temporary short selling ban...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care in OECD countries
Fujisawa, Rie - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted primary and secondary prevention efforts as well as routine cancer care including diagnosis and treatment. The number of cancer-related procedures declined across countries. Many of the OECD countries also faced challenges in maintaining and further improving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278702
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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596165
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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198679
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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233922
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Health Insurance Expansions and Provider Behavior : Evidence from Substance Use Disorder Providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965014
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Health Care Equity and COVID-19 : Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Egalitarian Governance and Health System Capacity on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Cooray, Arusha V.; De … - 2020
Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095974
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The impact of COVID-19 on access to mental healthcare services
Harrell, Benjamin; Fumarco, Luca; Button, Patrick; … - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the rate of mental health disorders, as well as demand for mental health services. It remains unclear, however, the extent to which the pandemic impacted access to mental health services. Using data from an audit field experiment, we examine the impact of COVID-19...
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