were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent …

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

neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …

Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their … physicians take into account the payo s of the third party, which can lead to underprovision of medical services. We conduct a …

consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance the co-payment aimed at changing the patients' behaviour towards more … plausible, that the introduction of this co-payment has contributed to a reduction of unnecessary and redundant physicians …, die Zahl nicht notwendiger Arztbesuche oder Mehrfachuntersuchungen zu verringern. -- Praxisgebühr ; Selbstbeteiligung …

. Patients have little incentive to shop for low-priced alternatives because they do not bear the full cost of their health care … coinsurance. For patients affected by the policy, we find that the likelihood of purchasing a 20% coinsurance drug decreases by 4 …

, affects physicians' medical service provision and the quality of care. Using a series of controlled experiments with … physicians and students, we test the incentive effect of performance pay at a within-subject level. A discrete bonus is granted … if a quality threshold is reached, which varies with the patients' severity of illness. We find that performance pay …