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Gaynor, Martin - 2011

This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...

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Effects of Payment Reform in More Versus Less Competitive Markets

Sood, Neeraj - 2015

Policymakers are increasingly interested in reducing healthcare costs and inefficiencies through innovative payment strategies. These strategies may have heterogeneous impacts across geographic areas, potentially reducing or exacerbating geographic variation in healthcare spending. In this...

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Aged-Care Support in Japan : Perspectives and Challenges

Mitchell, Olivia S.; Piggott, John; Shimizutani, Satoshi - 2021

This study explores economic aspects of the market for long term care (LTC) with a special focus on Japan. First, we … describe the LTC system in Japan as presently implemented, and we highlight some aspects of the program that are novel and … of Japanese LTC utilization and costs. Finally, since Japan appears likely to experience important shortfalls in LTC in …

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Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan

Fukui, Tadashi - 2006

As the Japanese population structure changes, health care and long-term care costs will steadily increase. The current style of financing (pay-as-you-go) will create a large increase in future burden of these costs. This paper studies an alternative policy that prefunds the social insurance...

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Forecasting Nursing Home Utilization of Elderly Americans

Dick, Andrew R. - 2010

This paper describes the likelihood and duration of nursing home admissions experienced by Americans after age 65. Our analysis generates predictions for a representative population, not for one selected to be at high risk of institutionalization, and should therefore be of direct relevance to...

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Long-Term Care, Wealth, and Health of the Disabled Elderly Living in the Community

Garber, Alan M. - 2009

Providing and financing long-term care of the elderly are among the most challenging policy issues facing the aging American population. This study examines characteristics and selected measures of utilization in the population most likely to use long-term care. It investigates characteristics...

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Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes : The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities

McCullough, Jeffrey - 2013

Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms...

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Integration and Task Allocation : Evidence from Patient Care

David, Guy - 2013

We develop a formal model to show how integration solves task allocation problems between organizations and test the predictions of the model, using a large and rich patient-level dataset on hospital discharges to nursing homes and home health care. As predicted by the theory, we find that...

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Income and the Utilization of Long-Term Care Services : Evidence from the Social Security Benefit Notch

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of income on the long-term care utilization of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise similar retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. Using data from the 1993 and 1995 waves of the...

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Insuring Long Term Care in the Us

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2011

Long-term care expenditures constitute one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly in the United States. This paper provides an overview of the economic and policy issues surrounding insuring long-term care expenditure risk. Through this lens we also discuss the likely impact...

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