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Competition, gatekeeping, and health care access
Godager, Geir; Iversen, Tor; Ma, Ching-to Albert - In: Journal of health economics 39 (2015), pp. 159-170
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Prescribing behavior of General Practitioners: Competition matters
Schaumans, Catherine - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 4, pp. 456-463
General Practitioners (GP) 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.
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Prescribing Behavior of General Practitioners : Competition Matters!
Schaumans, C.B.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of prescriptions) when confronted with more competition. As there is … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients … the level of competition. The level of competition is measured by GP density, after controlling for the number of GPs and …
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Prescribing Behavior of General Practitioners : Competition Matters!
Schaumans, C.B.C. - Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center - 2014
exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of prescriptions) when confronted with more competition. As there is … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients … the level of competition. The level of competition is measured by GP density, after controlling for the number of GPs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144463
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The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates
Pareto, Marcos Pompeu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
that free-market competition should prevail. Contrarily, the other side claims that the system is only nominally a free …
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Competition between General Practitioners and Specialists in the Primary Health Care Market
Brasseur, Carine - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2001
not only in competition between themselves but also with specialists. We define the copayment to impose in order to ensure … larger the competition with specialists. Next, we show that the assumption of risk-averse patients precludes the optimal …
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The Market for Paid Sick Leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping decisions are untainted by private economic interests? Based on … gatekeeping increases the demand for their services. …
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The market for paid sick leave
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping decisions are untainted by private economic interests? Based on … gatekeeping increases the demand for their services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455572
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Market conditions and general practitioners’ referrals
MA, Ching-to Albert; Iversen, Tor - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2010
We study how market conditions influence referrals of patients by general practitioners (GPs).We set up a model ofGP referral for theNorwegian health care system, where a GP receives capitation payment based on the number of patients in his practice, as well as fee-for-service reimbursements. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779483
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Gatekeeping in German Primary Health Care - Impacts on Coordination of Care, Quality Indicators and Ambulatory Costs
Hofmann, Sarah M.; Muehlenweg, Andrea M. - 2016
Evaluation studies on gatekeeping in primary care exist for a variety of countries but provide mixed evidence on … utilization and quality of care as well as costs. Our study evaluates the German gatekeeping program, based on claims data of a … multiple identification strategies. We exploit variation in the regional provision of gatekeeping in an instrumental variable …
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