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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2007
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
Bardey, David; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2015
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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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - CESifo - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877737
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877767
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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727295
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000366
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Supplementary Private Health Insurance in Selected Countries: Lessons for EU Governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - CESifo - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010152
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Genetic Testing and Repulsion from Chance
Hoel, Michael; Iversen, Tor; Nilssen, Tore; Vislie, Jon - CESifo - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181393
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...
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