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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...

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Are doctors better health ministers?

Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

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Choice of contracts for quality in health care: Evidence from the British NHS

Fichera, Eleonora; Gravelle, Hugh; Pezzino, Mario; … - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2013

We examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of …

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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

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How to Improve Israel's Health-care System

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Israelis enjoy higher life expectancy and have a much younger demographic profile than most OECD countries. However, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio-economic divides are reflected in differences in health...

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Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care in the Netherlands

Schut, Erik; Sorbe, Stéphane; Høj, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner. In the health care sector, reforms have aimed at introducing more competition. Despite major changes and some positive...

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The Effect of a Hospital Nurse Staffing Mandate on Patient Health Outcomes: Evidence from California’s Minimum Staffing Regulation

Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Melvin Stephens, Jr.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012

hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in … AB394 had the intended effect of decreasing patient/nurse ratios in hospitals that previously did not meet mandated … patient safety in affected hospitals. …

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Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012

This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...

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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low. …

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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals

Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2003

A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

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