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Heterogeneity in Cost-Sharing and Cost-Sensitivity, and the Role of the Prescribing Physician

Carrera, Mariana - 2013

-lowering statins) to study the responses of physicians and patients to variation in the cost of drugs. In a sample of first-time statin …-income patients. Our analysis suggests that physicians can perceive the adherence elasticity of their patients and adjust their …, we present suggestive evidence that physicians learn about a patient's price sensitivity through their own experience of …

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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits: An econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...

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Eliciting the Demand for Long Term Care Coverage: A Discrete Choice Modelling Analysis

Brau, Rinaldo; Bruni, Matteo Lippi - 2006

We evaluate the demand for long term care (LTC) insurance prospects in a stated preference context, by means of the … techniques have not been used yet for studying the demand for LTC services. In this paper these methods are first of all used in …

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How did the German health care reform of 1997 change the distribution of the demand for health services?

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect …

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Re-evaluating an evaluation study: The case of the German health care reform of 1997

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German...

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How does copayment for health care services affect demand, health and redistribution? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence from 1990 to 2011

Kiil, Astrid; Houlberg, Kurt - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 15 (2014) 8, pp. 813-828

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The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: results from a field experiment

Cheo, Roland Kim San; Ge, Ge; Godager, Geir; Liu, Rugang; … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 33, pp. 1-19

whether informing physicians of a forthcoming mystery shopper audit influences their prescribing behavior. The intervention …

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: Hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D

Kesternich, Iris; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - 2012

aggregate level. We then analyze predictions at the individual level, in particular how insurance demand varies with observable …

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Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel L.; Winter, Joachim K. - 2011

, and subjective factors in the demand for prescription drug insurance. To characterize rational behavior in the complex …

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