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The impact of managed care on the gender earnings gap among physicians

Sasser, Alicia - 2012

Important differences in labor market characteristics suggest that men and women physicians may be viewed as imperfect substitutes in the labor market. Concerns about efficiency and cost-cutting, which have led to the adoption of managed care practices, may have (unintentionally) favored female...

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Compensation and incentives in medical networks with gate-keeping and case management

Schumacher, Petra - 2008

New approaches in health care, such as e.g. Integrated Delivery Systems, affect the role and tasks of medical suppliers. More and more, medical suppliers are incorporated into the process of guiding patients to medical specialists and hospitals and thus managing the course of disease. In this...

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Pricing and Incentives in Publicly Subsidized Health Care Markets : The Case of Medicare Part D

Decarolis, Francesco - 2012

In Medicare Part D, low income individuals receive subsidies to enroll into insurance plans. This paper studies how premiums are distorted by the combined effects of this subsidy and the default assignment of low income enrollees into plans. Removing this distortion could reduce the cost of the...

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Industry Transformation and Collaboration : To Drive and to Be Driven from an Evolutionary Perspective - Conceptualisation and First Empirical Findings

Gersch, Martin - 2007

To analyze a widely observable phenomenon - Industry Transformation - adequately, the authors suggest an approach by paradigmatically compatible evolutionary theories on two interrelating levels: the market level (to be analyzed from a New Austrian Economics' perspective) and the firm level (to...

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The Unintended Effects of the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy

Decarolis, Francesco - 2019

Objectives: Medicare Part D is the voluntary program that provides insurance for prescription drugs to 37 million US elderly. This form of public insurance is delivered exclusively through a choice-based private insurance market, where Medicare pays various types of subsidies. The objective of...

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Impfstoffmärkte, COVID-19 und gesundheitspolitische Maßnahmen: ordnungsökonomische Anmerkungen

Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2021

Die COVID-19-Pandemie ist das beherrschende Thema der letzten 18 Monate gewesen. Die Impfung gegen COVID-19 ist nach wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis als der Ausweg anzusehen. Der Beitrag verdeutlicht, dass die mit COVID-19 zusammenhängende Impfstrategie in drei Phasen einzuteilen ist, wobei...

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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services

Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022

In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...

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Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Dubois, Pierre; Gandhi, Ashvin; Vasserman, Shoshana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

prices are much higher in the US. This fact has led policymakers to consider legislation for price controls. This paper … assesses the effects of a US international reference pricing policy that would cap prices in US markets by those offered in … like Canada where prices are set through a negotiation process between pharmaceutical companies and the government. We then …

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Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic

Janssen, Aljoscha; Zhang, Xuan - 2021

This study investigates the role of retail pharmacy ownership in the opioid epidemic in the United States by comparing independently owned pharmacies' and chain pharmacies' prescription opioid dispensing practices. Using data of prescription opioid orders at the pharmacy level between 2006 and...

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Retail pharmacies and drug diversion during the opioid epidemic

Janssen, Aljoscha; Zhang, Xuan - 2020

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