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The drivers of public health spending : integrating policies and institutions

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo; … - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. We use a set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the OECD characterising the main supply-side, demand-side, and public management,...

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A Comparison of the USA Health Care Effort with Other OECD Countries

Gracia, Eduard; Gil, Joan - 2003

We use a sample of OECD countries in order to better understand why the US health care expenditure as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product ("health care effort") is so far above any other. To this end we employ a descriptive cross-country methodology based partially on econometric...

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Interdependence of public health expenditure efficiency and economic development in growing OECD economies and the Republic of Serbia

Prole, Ljiljana; Đurović Todorović, Jadranka; … - In: Ekonomske teme 60 (2022) 4, pp. 551-565

Economic shocks represent a challenge for health systems because they decrease public revenue, and at the same time, increase the need for publicly funded health care. Since health expenditure is rapidly increasing in most countries, its efficiency must be tested. The subject of research in this...

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Causes of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany

Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017

Healthcare utilization varies widely between regions. Yet, the causes of regional variation are still not well understood, and they can also differ between countries and institutional settings. We exploit patient migration to examine which share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in...

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Health Expenditures and Quality Health Services : The Efficiency Analysis of Differential Risk Structures of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Yang, Charles C. - 2020

Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent the nation’s largest initiative of Medicare alternative payment models toward value and health outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have tested various ACO models with differential risk structures, and have issued...

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Financing Health Care Delivery

Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care spending and market failures in health care delivery. I...

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The Impact of Credit Access on Healthcare Expenditures

Hou, Jialin - 2022

Using an instrumental variable design based on two powerful household-level datasets, I estimate the impact of households' credit access on their healthcare expenditure. The result shows a robust causal effect of households' constrained ability to borrow on their non-emergency medical...

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Quality-based financing : the Norwegian experience

Huus, Axel Miguel; Baardseng, Thomas Neby - In: OECD journal on budgeting 19 (2019) 3, pp. 123-130

In this article we give a presentation of the Norwegian quality based financing (QBF) mechanism and our experiences with this financing mechanism. The article outlines the main features of the Norwegian health care system, and its financing mechanisms. We then focus in on the QBF with a...

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Can performance measurement make health care systems more sustainable? Or at least more efficient?

White, Joseph B. - In: OECD journal on budgeting 19 (2019) 3, pp. 151-167

In light of the many discussions advocating the use of pay-for-performance and performance budgeting, this paper argues … that discouraging experience with both approaches should temper expectations that performance measurement can be a reform … efficiency is tenuous, and attention to performance is not new. Measurement's accuracy tends to be overstated and its costs …

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Household Catastrophic Health Expenditures : A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Knaul, Felicia; Wong, Rebeca; Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor; … - 2012

Compare patterns of catastrophic health expenditures in 12 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Material and Methods: Prevalence of catastrophic expenses was estimated uniformly at the household level using household surveys. Two types of prevalence indicators were used based on...

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