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Why Health Costs Spiral : The Case of Emergency Department Regulation

Westley, Christopher; Boozer, Ben - 2008

In this paper, we analyze the effect of hospital emergency department regulations on overall health costs using …

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The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on Medical Care : A Common Casualty of Universal Coverage

Brown, Kent Masterson - 2008

Most people would agree that a patient should always be able to spend his own money on the health care services he desires. Yet that freedom is often threatened or denied when government tries to provide universal health insurance coverage, as in the U.S. Medicare program, which provides health...

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Economic Incentives in General Practice : The Impact of Pay for Participation Programs on Diabetes Care

Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Nobilio, Lucia; Ugolini, Cristina - 2007

empirical evidence on the extent to which such programs influence healthcare outcomes and on the degree of physicians …

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The Impacts of Mental Health Parity and Managed Care in One Large Employer Group

Zuvekas, Samuel H.; Regier, Darrel A.; Rae, Donald S.; … - 2002

We examine the impacts of a state mental health parity mandate on a large employer group, which simultaneously introduced a managed behavioral health care carve-out. Overall, we find that mental health/substance abuse (MH/SA) costs dropped 39 percent from the year prior to three years after...

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The Costs of Constraint and Prospects for Health Care Reform in Canada

Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes - 2005

the center of the federal-provincial agenda, reconfiguring the internal politics of medical and hospital groups, and …

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Expensive Endings : Reining In the High Cost of End-of-Life Care in Canada

Quinn, Kieran L.; Isenberg, Sarina R.; Downar, James - 2022

focuses on improving comfort and quality of life, often avoiding hospital-based, invasive, costly and potentially … of healthcare delivery increases significantly in the final months of life and does so in particular for hospital … early enough to experience the benefits of this approach and avoid EOL visits to the emergency room, hospital and the …

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Medicaid Expansion and Intensity of Treatment : Increased Cost in the Emergency Department

Danagoulian, Shooshan; Goodman, Allen C.; Janke, Alexander - 2018

We estimate the impact of the ACA Medicaid expansion on the intensity of treatment in the emergency department. We conduct a visit level analysis with a difference-in-differences specification for the number of procedures, number of diagnoses, and visit characterization according to the NYU...

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The (W)Health of Nations : The Impact of Health Expenditure on the Number of Chronic Diseases

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi; Salustri, Francesco - 2015

We investigate the impact of health expenditure on health outcomes on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50 using individual and regional-level data. We find a significant and negative effect of lagged health expenditure on later changes in the number of chronic diseases. This effect varies...

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Gender Analysis of Public Expenditures for Education, Health Care and Social Insurance in the Republic of Moldova

Petroia, Andrei; Munteanu, Olga - 2015

Gender equality represents the engine for economic, social and democratic development. In the majority of developed and developing countries, resources allocated by government are limited. The lack of financial resources for covering the existent social needs lead to such a problem like...

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Consumer Financial Protection in Health Care

Fuse Brown, Erin C. - 2017

There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...

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