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Comparison of Two Public Sector Tertiary Care Hospitals’ Management in Reducing Direct Medical Cost Burden on Breast Carcinoma Patients in Lahore, Pakistan

Khaliq, Imran Hameed - 2018

hospital (median US$1153.93/Rs. 118,589) was significantly higher than Mayo hospital (median US$427.93/Rs. 43,978), p<0.001; r … hospital's patients as compared to Jinnah hospital.Conclusion: This study indicates that OOP direct medical cost burden was … found considerably less in Mayo hospital as compared to Jinnah hospital. The OOP expenditures on chemotherapy were …

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When is Medical Care 'Futile'? The Institutional Competence of the Medical Profession Regarding the Provision of Life-Sustaining Medical Care

Katz, Meir - 2011

“Medical futility,” the doctrine by which hospital ethics boards have assumed the right to authorize medical providers …

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Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? : evidence from a video experiment

Daniels, Lotte; Marneffe, Wim - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

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Strategic pricing and competitive procurement in the physician services market

Arie, Guy; Bergman, Alon; Wedig, Gerard J. - 2017

market. We depart from the standard healthcare service pricing model and allow physicians to (partially) adjust patient … quantities supports the hypothesis that physicians respond to insurer price differences: A 10% increase in private prices …

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Small-Area Variation in Health Care Affecting the Choice of Cesarean Delivery : The Case of a Colombian Health Insurer

Vecino-Ortiz, Andrés Ignacio; Bardey, David; Castaño, … - 2009

sections. Geographic area only explains 1/3 of the variance attributable to the hospital. Furthermore, some variables from both …

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Healthcare Spending : The Role of Healthcare Institutions from an International Perspective

Titeca, Hannes - 2016

Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...

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Virtual Health in a Post–COVID World : Optimizing Regulation, Reimbursement, and Regularity

Graboyes, Robert F.; Bryan, Darcy - 2022

Virtual health is the sum of telehealth (patient–provider communication at a distance) and autonomous health (electronic devices communicating with providers and patients at a distance). The COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant social distancing led to a sharp increase in the use of virtual...

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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry

Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...

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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017

program implementation relative to a comparison group of beneficiaries who were not exposed to the V-BID. Our findings suggest …

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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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