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Healthcare Costs, Choice of Providers and Patient Satisfaction : Survey Evidence from India

Arora, Prateek; Singh, Nirvikar; Visaria, Abhijit - 2021

household survey of 500 villages from across 10 villages around the town of Nabha. We examined the role of health costs in … measure of anticipated treatment cost in order to account for the endogeneity of the actual treatment costs in healthcare … choices. Our results indicate that respondents who identified costs as a primary factor in their choice of provider were more …

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Technological Adoption in Health Care

Barros, Pedro; Martínez-Giralt, Xavier - 2022

This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients’ benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied:...

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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance

Erlandsen, Espen - 2007

efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three different approaches relying on, respectively: i) unit costs for …

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Exploring variations in healthcare expenditures : what is the role of practice styles?

Ahammer, Alexander; Schober, Thomas - 2017

Variations in the use of medical resources, both across and within geographical regions, have been widely documented. Whenever these variations cannot be explained by differences in patient needs or preferences, they may result in some individuals being over-treated, while others are...

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Exploring variations in healthcare expenditures : what is the role of practice styles?

Ahammer, Alexander; Schober, Thomas - 2017

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Who cares when you close down? : the effects of primary care practice closures on patients

Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....

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Retirement and healthcare utilization

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2018

unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early …

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Retirement and healthcare utilization

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2018

unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813229

Exploring variations in healthcare expenditures : what is the role of practice styles?

Ahammer, Alexander; Schober, Thomas - 2018

Variations in the use of medical resources, both across and within geographical regions, have been widely documented. In this paper we explore physician practice styles as a possible determinant of these variations. In particular, we exploit patient mobility between physicians to identify...

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France : improving the efficiency of the health-care system

Goujard, Antoine - 2018

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology is expanding possibilities for life extension and...

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