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Life, Death, and Medicare Fraud : The Corruption of Hospice and What the Private Public Partnership Under the Federal False Claims Act is Doing About It

Barger, James - 2016

Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...

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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems

Aspalter, Christian - 2012

This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...

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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals

Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International journal of management, economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241

This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of quality management systems in terms of certification...

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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data

Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017

ausgleichenden Nutzen daraus zieht. In Deutschland wird aktuell diskutiert, ob Versicherte der Privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) bei … Wartezeiten ausgesetzt sind. Um diesem Problem im ambulanten Sektor entgegenzuwirken wurde in Deutschland im Jahr 2015 eine Reform … Deutschland betrachtet sowie den Einfluss der Reform auf das Problem untersucht. Wir haben einen beträchtlichen Unterschied der …

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The effect of private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany

Petilliot, René - 2017

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

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The effect of private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany

Petilliot, René - 2017

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Insurance barriers and inequalities in health care access : evidence from dual practice

Goetjes, Eva; Blankart, Katharina - 2024

Background We investigate access disparities in pharmaceutical care among German patients with type 2 diabetes, focusing on differences between public and private health insurance schemes. The primary objectives include investigating whether patients with private health insurance experience...

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Social Health Insurance as a Complementary Financing Mechanism for Universal Health Coverage in India

Kalita, Anuska - 2015

The paper explores the role that Social Health Insurance (SHI), as an organisational mechanism for raising and pooling additional funds, can play in financing health services in India. It formulates an SHI concept and its aims for India and examines case studies of different countries that have...

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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits

Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...

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Germany's healthcare system : funding, resource allocation, provider payment, efficiency, and access

Michaeli, Daniel; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Christoph T. - 2022

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...

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