We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two … dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is veri?able (dimension 1) and one dimension is not verifiable (dimension 2 … quality 1 increases or decreases the provider's marginal disutility and the patients' marginal benefit from quality 2 (i …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.<br/>Objectives: We investigate whether GPs … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients …

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.<br/>Objectives: We investigate whether GPs … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients …

Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue … that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … the nursing home quality from the first to the second evaluation. Both indicators comprising either the two outcome …

whether the nonprofit sector provides higher nursing home quality relative to its for-profit counterpart. However … randomization of residents into more or less “exposure” to nonprofit homes when estimating the effects of ownership on quality of …

Public and private entities around the world are trying to induce the provision of higher-quality health care by … precision of signals available to consumers regarding provider quality—may result in lower equilibrium quality, holding prices …

improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. In this paper we test this crucial … assumption in an important part of the health care market by examining whether quality affects the choice of family doctor. We … the determinants of choice and, in particular, whether quality affects choice. The English setting is a particularly …

Nowadays different healthcare policies in OECD countries seem to consider hospital readmissions somehow “quality … provide quality and cost-reducing effort under different payment regimes, either a global budgeting or a prospective payment … specific results about quality are concerned, we find that prospective payment systems do not necessarily perform better than …