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Can Risk Adjustment prevent Risk Selection in a Competitive Long-Term Care Insurance Market?

Bakx, Piet; Schut, Erik; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2013

When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...

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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis

Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011

After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...

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Externalities of national pharmaceutical policy when markets are integrated through parallel trade

Birg, Laura - 2013

(patients pay a percentage of the price), under pharmaceutical parallel trade in a two-country model with a vertical distributor … relationship. Parallel trade generates a price-decreasing competition effect in the destination country and a price …

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Pharmaceutical regulation at the wholesale level and parallel trade

Birg, Laura - 2013

This paper studies the effect of pharmaceutical regulation at the wholesale level, if markets are integrated by parallel trade, i.e. trade outside the manufacturer´s authorized distribution channel. In particular, maximum wholesale margins, a restriction of pricing by the intermediary, and...

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Pharmaceutical cost-sharing systems and savings for health care systems from parallel trade

Birg, Laura - 2013

price-decreasing competition effect in the destination country and a price-increasing double marginalization effect in the …

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care

Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013

Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care … heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In … the new price schedule while a second group of individuals does not react. Post-estimation analyses reveal that the group …

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Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - 2013

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...

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Externalities of national pharmaceutical policy when markets are integrated through parallel trade

Birg, Laura - 2013

(patients pay a percentage of the price), under pharmaceutical parallel trade, i.e. trade outside the manufacturer's authorized … distribution channel, in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. Parallel trade generates a price …-decreasing competition effect in the destination country and a price-increasing double marginalization effect in the source country. An …

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DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein, Juliane - 2013

Since 2003/2004, German hospitals are reimbursed based on a prospective payment scheme (diagnosis related groups, DRGs). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at the relevant thresholds. These discontinuities...

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