This paper examines the impact of Fee-for-Service and Bundled Payment reimbursement schemes on the social welfare, the patient revisit rate, and the patient waiting time in a three-tiered public healthcare system comprising: (a) a public funder who decides on the reimbursement rate to maximize...

Consider a public healthcare system consisting of a hospital, a mobile clinic (MC), and a population of potential patients. The government is concerned about the system’s healthcare spending and the population’s health outcomes. It needs to decide whether and how to provide the MC service to...

To contain healthcare cost and improve quality, there is an on-going debate regarding the impact of different reimbursement schemes on patient welfare. In this paper, we examine two commonly used reimbursement schemes: (1) a Fee-For-Service (FFS) reimbursement scheme under which health care...

This paper studies the efficiency of two subsidy schemes widely used in health-care systems: unconditional and conditional. Unconditional schemes partially subsidize customers seeking private care without pre-requirement, whereas conditional schemes fully subsidize those who have waited...