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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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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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We study physicians' incentives to use personalized medicine techniques, replicating the physician's trade-offs under … the option of personalized medicine information. In a laboratory experiment where prospective physicians play a dual … to personalized medicine into higher quality patient care. iii) When it has to be paid for, personalized medicine is …
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This paper examines how physicians respond to financial incentives in China. Faced with the requirement to lower drug … expenditure as a percentage of the total medical expenditure, physicians increased non-drug expenditure in addition to decreasing … only among insured patients, highlighting the role of patient insurance status in affecting the extent to which physician …
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Medicare claims to show that physicians strongly substitute away from hospital settings toward ASCs following their investments …. We find no evidence of patient cream skimming or care quality erosion. Medicare, specifically, spends less on net …
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Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their … own pro t as well as patient bene t. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem … physicians take into account the payo s of the third party, which can lead to underprovision of medical services. We conduct a …
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