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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit …

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Healthy reviews! : online physician ratings reduce healthcare interruptions

Kummer, Michael E.; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Rich, Cyrus E.; … - 2021

from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …

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Cut off from new competition

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general prac- titioners (GPs). We leverage Germany’s needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile...

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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19

Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took …

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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments

Schwardmann, Peter - 2017

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...

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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence

Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021

To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...

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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care

Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and …

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study … physicians' market shares. Medical treatment is an example of a credence good: only the physician knows the appropriate treatment … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment …

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Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits

Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2023

In the fight against antibiotic resistance, reducing antibiotic consumption while preserving healthcare quality presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment....

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