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Cost-Sharing and Drug Pricing Strategies : Introducing Tiered Co-Payments in Reference Price Markets

Herr, Annika - 2016

Health insurances curb price insensitive behavior and moral hazard of insureds through different types of cost-sharing, such as tiered co-payments or reference pricing. This paper evaluates the effect of newly introduced price limits below which drugs are exempt from co-payments on the pricing...

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The effect of higher out-of-pocket payments on drug prices and demand

Loetscher, Fabienne; Schmid, Christian; Gerfin, Michael - 2024

Health care markets often lack a market force because the presence of health insurance undermines price signals. Patients have little incentive to shop for low-priced alternatives because they do not bear the full cost of their health care consumption. In turn, producers lack incentives to...

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Rural Hospital Mergers, Antitrust Policy, and the Ukiah Case

Blackstone, Erwin A.; Fuhr, Joseph P. - 1999

This article examines the antitrust issues in rural hospital mergers by focusing on an important antitrust case …

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Hospital Mergers : A Spatial Competition Approach

Brekke, Kurt R. - 2013

Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical hospitals, we study the effects of a hospital merger … on quality, price and welfare. The merging hospitals always reduce quality, but the non-merging hospital responds by … responsiveness to quality is sufficiently low, whereas the non-merging hospital always increases its price. If prices are endogenous …

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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 in May 2013. In response to public shock and outrage, hospitals …

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International Comparisons of Health Care Expenditures : What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Kanavos, Panos; Mossialos, Elias - 2010

International comparisons of health care expenditures and their determinants have attracted considerable attention since the early 1960s and have since been used widely to compare countries. The impetus for this has been two-fold: firstly, to assess the macroeconomic efficiency of health systems...

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Effect of Air Pollution on Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Respiratory Diseases

Liu, Ya-Ming; Ao, Chon-Kit - 2021

Recent reports show that at least 95% of the world’s population is breathing polluted air. However, the impact of air quality on air pollution-related medical expenditure and utilization is sparse. This study estimates the short-term health care cost impacts of air pollution using a...

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Health Care Systems : Efficiency and Institutions

Joumard, Isabelle - 2010

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation of health care systems and the identification of...

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The Effect of Government Control Over Health Care Expenditures on Health Care System Efficiency in the U.S. and Other OECD Countries, 1972-2009

Deppen, Ray - 2015

This paper focuses on the question: Does public or private control of health care lead to greater healthcare system efficiency? The data analysis demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between government control over health care and health care system inefficiency and that, as a result, a...

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Shortages of medicines in OECD countries

Chapman, Suzannah - 2022

Even in wealthy economies, access to medicines is increasingly affected by medicine shortages – an issue exacerbated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper was to examine the extent and nature of medicine shortages in OECD countries (pre-COVID-19) and explore the...

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