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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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Non-urgent Visits and Emergency Department Congestion : Patients' Choice and Incentive Mechanisms

Sharma, Shrutivandana; Xu, Ying; Gupta, Manu Kumar; … - 2019

A major reason behind crowding in emergency departments (ED) is non-urgent patients' visits to ED. In this paper we investigate how non-urgent ED visits are influenced by patients' imperfect perception of their urgency and their self-interested choice, and we explore interventions that can...

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Chapter Nine. Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 499-637). 2011

review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

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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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Picking Your Patients : Selective Admissions in the Nursing Home Industry

Gandhi, Ashvin - 2021

Do healthcare providers pick their patients? This paper uses patient-level administrative data on skilled nursing facilities in California to estimate a structural model of selective admission practices in the nursing home industry. I exploit within-facility covariation between occupancy and...

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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations : Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

Maclean, Catherine - 2019

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health – mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) – community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...

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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Tello Trillo, Daniel S.; … - 2019

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...

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Economic Shocks and Healthcare Capital Investments

Richards, Michael R.; Shi, Maggie; Whaley, Christopher M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Information technology (IT) can enhance firms' long-run performance but is also a risky investment, with high fixed costs and uncertain returns. Whether market events influence this tradeoff has received limited attention. We leverage the healthcare context to empirically examine hospitals' IT...

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Price changes in regulated healthcare markets : do public hospitals respond and how?

Verzulli, Rossella; Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, … - 2015

This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...

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