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Does National Centralized Drug Procurement Reduce Inpatient Medical Spending? Evidence from China

Li, Dingding; Li, Ling - 2022

Cancer often results in catastrophic health expenditures and creates a huge financial burden for families. We study the impact on patient finances and health outcomes of the national centralized drug procurement program in China for leukemia patients. The program reduced the price of the generic...

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A Welfare Analysis of Rationing in Health Care Provision

Levaggi, Laura; Levaggi, Rosella - 2016

We study the welfare properties of direct restrictions based on cost-effectiveness against indirect methods represented by waiting lists in a public health care system. Health care is supplied for free, but with some restrictions by the public health sector. Patients can choose to address their...

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Perverse Incentives Arising from the Tax Provisions of Healthcare Reform : Why Further Reforms are Needed to Prevent Avoidable Costs to Low- and Moderate-Income Workers

Gamage, David - 2013

Called “Obamacare” by some, the Affordable Care Act (or “ACA”) is the most extensive reform to the American healthcare system since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ACA promises many improvements to American health care. While recognizing the importance of these...

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Accountability and Access to Medical Care : Lessons from the Use of Capitation Payments in Ontario

Blomqvist, Ake; Kralj, Boris; Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2013

Ontario healthcare reforms have made headway in improving access to primary care by implementing the "capitation" model where doctors are paid mainly for a roster of patients rather than fee-for-service – but too many of patients are still using "outside" doctors, according to a report from...

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Copayments in the German Health System - Do They Work?

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Schaffner, Sandra - 2007

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...

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Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy : Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Ponzo, Michela - 2016

We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...

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Short-Term Predictions of the Total Medical Costs of California Counties

Kleinman, Gary - 2013

The aim of this research is to develop a model to forecast short term health cost changes. The motivation for producing such a model is to provide local decision makers with a tool to predict short term health care costs in their localities. In order to achieve this objective, we collected data...

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Employer quality and skilled workers' mobility : evidence from English NHS hospital doctors

Cellini, Stefano; Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2025

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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2007

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

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Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011

The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...

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