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Introducing activity-based payment in the hospital industry : evidence from French data

Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - 2013

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

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First do no harm. Then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013

(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency …

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Saving lives at birth : the impact of home births on infant outcomes

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2012

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

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Identification of supplier-induced demand : what kind of consumer information matters?

Schmid, Christian - 2013

The focus of the present study is on consumer health information in relation to supplier induced demand (SID). We argue that a comparison between medical professionals and nonmedical professionals fails to identify demand inducement. Using a new information measure based on questions of the...

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First do no harm - then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2014

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239957

Learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession when stakes are high : evidence from advanced cancer surgery

Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014

Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that … production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled … or by other changes at the hospital level. …

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Can amputation save the hospital? : the impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on demand and welfare ; conference paper

Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Lucarelli, Claudio; … - 2013

This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexi- bility (Flex) Program on rural resident … hospital choice and welfare. The Flex program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which …

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DRG upcoding in German neonatology : conference paper

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

manipulation may be linked with the strength of financial incentives, regional competition in the hospital sector, ownership status …

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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...

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