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-induced demand. This notably involves completing the shift to pathology-based budgets in hospitals, more capitation in the … shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …
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to secure cost containment in an increasingly demand-driven health care sector. In 2012, reforms expanded the role of the …
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, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio … accommodating demand for private health care. However, there are challenges and tensions in the system. Currently the authorities … being eroded by co-payments and the increasing demand for the additional services and options provided by private insurance …
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To help inform a conference organised by the Germany Ministry of Health (BMG) and the OECD on ‘Managing Hospital Volumes’ on the 11th April 2013, the OECD Secretariat produced this paper giving an international perspective on Germany’s situation and the current policy debate. It provides a...
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We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
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Entscheidungssituationen, welche jeweils mehr als 50 Krankenkassen zur Wahl beinhalten. Die Ergebnisse deuten an, dass Servicequalität und … freiwillige Zusatzleistungen eine – im Vergleich zu Beiträgen – untergeordnete Rolle in der Wahl der Krankenkasse spielen. …
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This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
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This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...
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