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Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen
Kumpmann, Ingmar (contributor) - 2008
neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003615904
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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213324
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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany : A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach
Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2010
In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218988
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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany : A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach
Schreyogg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218994
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Copayments for doctor visits in Germany and the probability of visiting a physician : evidence from a natural experiment
Farbmacher, Helmut - 2009
The German health care reform of 2004 imposes a charge of 10 Euro for the first visit to a doctor in each quarter of the year. At first glance, there is no inhibiting effect of this fee on utilization in the German Socio-Economic Panel. However, this study reveals that the true effect is diluted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951754
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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach
Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2010
In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663837
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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach
Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632066
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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633519
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Versorgungsforschung im Kontext aktueller Herausforderungen
Meier, Florian - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395772
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631526