Fee equalization in health care brings under a unique tariff several medical treatments, coded under different …

payment models toward value and health outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have tested various ACO … potential cost reductions. The results indicate that in minimizing health expenditures given quality services, or maximizing … quality services given health expenditures, one-sided ACOs are more efficient than two-sided ACOs, so it might not be …

We explore optimal health subsidies in a dynastic model with health externalities to productivity that cause low health … spending, productivity, longevity, savings and labor but high fertility. Public or firms’ health subsidies increase health … spending, longevity and productivity and decrease fertility. Labor income taxes reduce the marginal benefit of health spending …

time many developing countries lack social insurance for large segments of the population. Health accounts may offer a way … of implementing health insurance that keeps a lid on costs and provides better incentives than traditional public or … private health insurance. This paper discusses health accounts and other savings-account based social insurance …

Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in … the health care system. In this paper, it is argued that this could be unsuccessful since health care providers hold a … strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described …

This paper analyzes the consequences of parallel trade on health care systems in a two-country model with a vertical … respect to changes in copayments and public health expenditure. Under both cost-sharing systems, parallel trade generates a …, whereas reductions of public health expenditure occur only under coinsurance. In the source country, copayments increase less …