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Reimbursement Schemes for Hospitals : Theory and Evidence from Germany

Feess, Eberhard; Müller, Helge; Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2010

In 2003, Germany switched from a fee-for-service (FFS) system to a fixed-fee prospective payment system (PPS) in … reimbursement schemes for hospitals. In close cooperation with two hospitals in Germany we have compiled a data set to analyze the …. Our paper thus contradicts widely dispersed fears in Germany that in particular old and high-risk patients may suffer from …

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Irrational Hospital Pricing

Fuse Brown, Erin C. - 2014

Hospital prices are almost completely irrational. They bear no relationship to the cost of providing the services, they are opaque, and the prices vary wildly among hospitals and payers. The craziness of hospital pricing was laid bare when the federal government released data on hospital charges...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2017

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...

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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes : Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Pichler, Stefan - 2015

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Patient dumping, outlier payment, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information

Takahara, Tsuyoshi - 2013

We analyze the rationale for official authorization of patient dumping in the prospectivepayment policy framework. We show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes...

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Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information

Takahara, Tsuyoshi - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 57, pp. 1-11

We analyze a rationale for official authorization of patient dumping in the prospective payment policy framework. We show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes...

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