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Causes of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in Germany can be attributed to demand factors and to supply factors … characteristics. Our results contrast with previous results for other countries, and they suggest that institutional rules in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603120
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance : evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703654
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance : evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663379
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493156
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Mehr Staat im Gesundheitswesen? : acht Thesen zu einer zur Unzeit aufkeimenden Systemdebatte
Pimpertz, Jochen - 2020
robust. While the infection rate in Germany is so far slightly lower than in other large European economies, the relatively … increased - potentially favoured by a mix of private and public hospital operators in Germany. Bottlenecks are more likely to be … caused by the staffing of hospitals, where Germany does not compare favourably with other countries. Fortunately, up to now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224915
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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance : evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631504
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487966
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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality
Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015
This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490826
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Plan responses to diagnosis-based payment : evidence from Germany's morbidity-based risk adjustment
Bauhoff, Sebastian; Fischer, Lisa; Göpffarth, Dirk; … - 2017
Many competitive health insurance markets adjust payments to participating health plans according to their enrollees' risk - including based on diagnostic information. We investigate responses of German health plans to the introduction of morbidity-based risk adjustment in the Statutory Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659494
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The effect of a ban on gender-based pricing on risk selection in the German health insurance market
Huang, Shan; Salm, Martin - 2018
used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961924