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On the Efficiency of Public, Welfare and Private Hospitals in Germany Over Time - A Sectoral DEA-Study

Helmig, Bernd; Lapsley, Irvine - 2007

This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …

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Strategic interaction in the market for physician services : the treadmill effect in a fixed budget system

Benstetter, Franz; Wambach, Achim - 2001

We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves { compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system { a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the...

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Strategic Interaction in the Market for Physician Services : The Treadmill Effect in a Fixed Budget System

Wambach, Achim; Benstetter, Franz - 2021

We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the...

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Can Private Insurers Fail to Cream-Skim the Public Option? Evidence from the Individual Mandate in Germany

Polyakova, Maria - 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that if private health insurance plans compete alongside a public option, they may endanger the latter's financial stability by cream-skimming good risks. Documenting cream-skimming in dual insurance systems empirically is challenging, since selection into private...

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Reference pricing and cost-sharing : theory and evidence on German off-patent drugs ; conference paper

Herr, Annika; Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2014

This paper evaluates the impact of reference pricing on prices and co-payments in the (German) market for off-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference price affects the consumers' co-payments in a...

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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals

Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - 2003

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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals

Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - 2003

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

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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

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … performed in health care systems in Germany and Turkey. Several studies on the hospital quality of both countries pointed out to …

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Wie steht es um Deutschlands Krankenhausinfrastruktur? : Überblick und internationaler Vergleich

Kochskämper, Susanna - 2020

is that Germany has a high hospital bed density in comparison to other countries, also in the field of intensive and …In diesem Report werden Daten zum Stand der Krankenhausinfrastruktur in Deutschland - auch im Vergleich zu anderen …. Es zeigt sich, dass Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich eine hohe Krankenhausbettendichte hat, auch im Bereich der …

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Spillover effects and other determinants of medical device uptake in the presence of a medical guideline : an analysis of drug-eluting stents in Germany and Italy

Möllenkamp, Meilin; Pongiglione, Benedetta; Rabbe, Stefan - In: Health economics 31 (2022), pp. 157-178

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