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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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Organizing and Regulating Hospital and Physician Investment
Mikkers, Misja C. - 2011
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Internal Markets for Hospital Care : Cost and Quality Control in a Spatial Competition Model
Levaggi, Rosella - 2005
Internal markets have been created in an attempt to shift power from producers to consumers in a context where consumers have very weak incentives to seek out low-cost producers and have little knowledge about the quality of health care. The idea is that by establishing public agencies to act as...
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Hospital Health Care : Cost Reimbursement and Quality Control in a Spatial Model with Asymmetry of Information
Levaggi, Rosella - 2009
The cost for hospital care depends on the quality of the service, on the personal characteristics of the patient, on … hospital care reimbursement systems will be discussed in a context where hospitals can observe patient severity and compete … is used by the provider to get more patients to his hospital. Spatial competition can then be used to curb the cost to …
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Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals
Held, Bärbel - 2014
The health care system in Germany is undergoing a phase of transformation. The resulting challenges and fields of action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for example, setting up new organisation structures,...
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Physicians as Persuaders : Evidence from Hospitals in China
Xiang, Jia - 2021
I apply a Bayesian persuasion framework to study information transmission in the physician-patient relationship. I highlight each party’s financial incentives in this transmission and the subsequent determination of medical treatment outcomes. I estimate the model using a large database of...
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Hospital Care Organisation in Italy : A Theoretical Assessment of the Reform
Levaggi, Rosella - 2010
In Italy, a substantial proportion of health care is financed by the public sector; our history of high deficit and debt means that the objective to rationalise and control expenditure has become a priority for any effective government policy. The health care system has been widely reformed and...
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Risk Classification in Insurance Contracting
Dionne, Georges - 2012
Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby reduce asymmetric information. Risk classification can be used to mitigate adverse selection and improve insurance...
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Gatekeeping in Health Care
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
about the secondary care market. We show that hospital competition is amplified by higher GP attendance but dampened by …
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Genetic Testing and Repulsion from Chance
Hoel, Michael; Iversen, Tor; Nilssen, Tore; Vislie, Jon - 2021
A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. We analyze this issue within a model with the following important feature: A person's well-being...
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