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Sources of financial pressure and up coding behavior in French public hospitals

Georgescu, Irène; Hartmann, Frank G.H. - In: Health Policy 110 (2013) 2, pp. 156-163

Drawing upon role theory and the literature concerning unintended consequences of financial pressure, this study investigates the effects of health care decision pressure from the hospital's administration and from the professional peer group on physician's inclination to engage in up coding. We...

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CPT fee differentials and visit upcoding under Medicare Part B

Brunt, Christopher S. - In: Health Economics 20 (2011) 7, pp. 831-841

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Effect of a law limiting upcoding on hospitals’ admissions: Evidence from Italy

Vittadini, Giorgio; Berta, Paolo; Martini, Gianmaria; … - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Università … - 2010

Policy makers have made several attempts to limit hospitals upcoding. We investigate the impact on discharges with and … strategically to it by varying the patients’ length of stay. We show that the policy has been effective in limiting upcoding, since … continue practicing upcoding. Furthermore, we provide evidence that upcoding is greater in private for–profit hospitals, that …

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Old Boys Network in General Practitioners Referral Behavior

Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald - 2013

We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners' (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors' place and time...

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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior

Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald - 2013

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How physicians affect patients' employment outcomes through deciding on sick leave durations

Ahammer, Alexander - 2016

I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the length of sickness absences. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures estimated from the data. I...

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How physicians affect patients' employment outcomes through deciding on sick leave durations

Ahammer, Alexander - 2016

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Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients

Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....

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A Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Relative Prices for General Practitioner and Specialist Services in Australia, 1984-1996

Connelly, L. B.; Doessel, D. P. - 2000

Australia's health care financing arrangements under Medicare involve Commonwealth subsidisation of private fee-for-service (FFS) medical services produced both in- and out-of-hospital. The Medicare institution, including those subsidy arrangements, operates in a uniform manner across...

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Disruptions in primary care: Can resigning GPs cause persistently negative health effects?

Monsees, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - 2024

We study the effects of general practitioners' (GPs') resignations on their patients' healthcare utilization, diagnoses, and mortality in an event-study setting. Using claims data from a large German statutory health insurance, we find that after physicians leave, their former patients...

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