patients in 2015, looking into possibly influential sociodemographic factors as far as patient satisfaction is concerned, to … satisfaction. However, insurance reimbursement rate has the negative influence. Patients with residency status are more demanding … probability of satisfaction conditional on insurance reimbursement is lower for patients with residency status, and higher for …

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities of Vietnamese patients falling into … high probabilities of destitution, approximately 70%, apply to a large group of patients, who are non-residents, poor and … ineligible for significant insurance coverage. There is also a probability of 58% that seriously ill low-income patients who face …

/or reform health services in developing nations. This study investigates the status of Vietnam's current health system as a … probability of destitution for Vietnamese patients (the other three being: non-residency, long stay in a hospital, and a high cost … destitution will rise further. Our findings provide policy implications and directions to improve Vietnam's health care system, in …

over the past decade in Vietnam. Patients seek to share facilities, reduce costs and rely on one another for support to …Introduction: The phenomenon of desperate patients living together in voluntary co-location clusters has been emerging … make life safer and less miserable. There has not been much research on these clusters and patients' bonding to their …

over the past decade in Vietnam. Patients seek to share facilities, reduce costs and rely on one another for support to …Introduction: The phenomenon of desperate patients live together in voluntary co-location clusters has been emerging … make life safer and less miserable. There has not been much research on these clusters and patients' bonding to their …

Background: Over the past 15 years or so, in Vietnam, a phenomenon has steadily grown more and more widespread: the … forming of co-located patients communities. Poor patients choose to live together, seeking/lending supports from/to one … another. Despite the undeniable existence of these communities, little is researched or known about how co-located patients …

show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals' rent extracting due to low-severity patients) and the shift … in the cost-reduction effort level for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however …

theoretical predictions using the data from a survey that elicits individual preferences for either patients' or providers … pay a copayment themselves when the amount of GPs' incentives is high, the one of the patients' copayment is low, they …