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Obesity and Moral Hazard in Demand for Visits to Physicians

Gustavsen, Geir Waehler; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Wu, Ximing - 2011

in demand for visits to physicians among groups of individuals with similar body mass index (BMI). Our results suggest …

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Medical Insurance and Free Choice of Physician Shape Patient Overtreatment : A Laboratory Experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and …

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

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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Ärztliche Leistung und Compliance des Patienten : der Fall des Double Moral Hazard

Schneider, Udo - 1999

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Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection : The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2015

behavior. These features include: (1) physicians can choose a payment contract from a menu that includes an enhanced fee … blended capitation contract; (3) physicians sort selectively into the contracts based on their preferences; and (4) physicians … in the blended capitation model provide fewer services than physicians in the enhanced fee-for-service model …

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Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, and health expenditure growth

Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael - 2018

We study the impact of health insurance expansion in the US on health expenditure, longevity growth and welfare in an overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final goods production; a health care sector, selling...

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Moral Hazard, Insurance, and Some Collusion

Alger, Ingela; Ma, Ching-to Albert - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001

A risk-averse consumer purchases an insurance policy; if she suffers a loss, she may receive services from a provider to recover some of the loss. Only the consumer and the provider know if the loss has actually occurred. The provider's behavior is uncertain. With some positive probability, the...

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Generic Drugs in Spain : Price Competition versus Moral Hazard

Moreno-Torres, Iván - 2011

made by physicians. It seems that the low level of copayment has delayed the penetration of generics into the Spanish …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Developing Primary Care Groups in the New NHS : Towards Diversity or Uniformity?

Smith, Judith; Barnes, Marian - 2000

This article examines how the Government third way is being implemented in relation to the involvement of primary care professionals in the commissioning of health services. Prior to 1997, the single preferred model of GP fundholding evolved into a diversity of approaches to commissioning and...

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