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Overcoming resistance against managed care: Insights from a bargaining model
Ehlert, Andree; Wein, Thomas; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 19, pp. 1-9
Recent healthcare reforms have sought to increase efficiency by introducing managed care (MC) while respecting consumer preferences by admitting choice between MC and conventional care. This article proposes an institutional change designed to let German consumers choose between the two settings...
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Zusatzbeiträge erhöhen die Preistransparenz: mehr Versicherte wechseln die Krankenkasse
Eibich, Peter; Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 51/52, pp. 3-12
Die 2009 implementierte Gesundheitsreform hat die Preistransparenz und somit die Verbraucherfreundlichkeit innerhalb der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) zunächst deutlich erhöht und die Bereitschaft der Versicherten gefördert, auf Preiserhöhungen mit einem Wechsel der Krankenkasse zu...
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Add-on premiums increase price transparency: More policy holders switch health plans
Eibich, Peter; Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 2, pp. 15-24
The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly which, in turn, has encouraged policy holders to react to price...
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Planes mínimos obligatorios en mercados de seguros de salud segmentados
Beteta, Edmundo; Willington, Manuel - In: Estudios de Economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 217-241
We analyze the effect of introducing a minimum mandatory health insurance plan in a segmented market in which high risks are affiliated to the public insurer and low risks to the private ones (market segmentation is endogenously obtained in our model). We assume both types of insurers must...
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Types of private financing of medical care by patients in Poland
Paszkowska, Małgorzata - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 7 (2011) 3, pp. 59-74
The share of privately paid medical care is steadily increasing. Polish patients pay immediately for single services and may also privately conclude the contracts for medical insurance or subscription (steady access to complex private medical care). The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's...
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Preference for sons: still a trend? Evidence from individual-level data from Finland, 1960–2015
Riukula, Krista - In: Review of Economics of the Household 22 (2024) 4, pp. 1579-1601
fertility and decreases the probability of being together with the child’s father in the 1960s to 1980s but not after the 1990s …
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From never partnered to serial cohabitors: union trajectories to childlessness
Jalovaara, Marika; Fasang, Anette Eva - In: Demographic Research: a peer-reviewed, open-access … 36 (2017), pp. 1703-1720
high rates of separation and unmarried cohabitation. [Objective:] To situate (biological) childlessness in longitudinal … cohabitation near age 40; 2) Briefly Cohabited (25%), characterized by mostly living single after a brief cohabitation spell; 3 …) Cohabitors, Often Serial (19%), marked by typically discontinuous cohabitation; and 4) Married (11%). The Never-Partnered cluster …
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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217
During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...
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Content Analysis of Human Resources Management Reporting Practices in Romanian Health Industry
Bratu, Ana-Maria - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 21 (2022) 4, pp. 501-523
Research Questions - To what extent do the various corporate reporting channels, documents, and instruments incorporate the issues identified in the literature as affecting human capital? Which aspects are taken into account by Romanian healthcare companies regarding the reporting of human...
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Impact of the introduction of the AMNOG law on launch delays of new drugs in Germany: a comment
Gandjour, Afschin - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 24 (2023) 7, pp. 1243-1244
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