Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic … health outcomes. Our findings suggest that subjecting integrated providers to higher-powered reimbursement incentives, i … health services (and other services subject to agency problems) to consider the organizational form of their suppliers when …

In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I … combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that …

health industry when providers are altruistic. Providers' behavioral rule is governed by a desire to maximize a weighted sum … of profit and consumers' health benefit. When providers exert costly efforts to enhance quality and reduce cost, the …