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Aerztemangel im laendlichen Raum – Neue Anreizstrukturen und innovative Versorgungsmodelle als Ausweg? Zur Bedeutung einer patientenorientierten Steuerung

Zerth, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 269-281

In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …

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Rahmenbedingungen fuer eine effektive Versorgungssteuerung in Stadt und Land

Greß, Stefan; Stegmüller, Klaus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 259-268

General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Health service gatekeepers

Malcomson, James M. - 2003

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treatment costs must be...

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Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits : evidence from a natural experiment

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However … for physicians' services of the treated, those subject to increased co-payments, can be assessed. The differences …

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...

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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission : A Natural Experiment

Fortin, Bernard; Echevin, Damien - 2011

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … a simple theoretical model of a physician’s decision to choose the MC scheme. We show that a physician who adopts this …

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Physician Agency and Adoption of Generic Pharmaceuticals

Iizuka, Toshiaki - 2014

pharmaceuticals. I examine micro-panel data from Japan, where physicians can legally make profits by prescribing and dispensing drugs …. The results indicate that physicians often fail to internalize patient costs, explaining why cheaper generics are …

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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission : A Natural Experiment

Echevin, Damien; Fortin, Bernard - 2011

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The Health Care Reform Act of 2010 and Medical Malpractice Liability : Worlds in Collision or Ships Passing in the Night?

Hafemeister, Thomas L.; Hinckley-Porter, Joshua - 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 tackles many health care-related issues, but medical malpractice liability reform is not one of them. Despite being a perennial target of health care reform -- with accompanying assertions that a medical malpractice liability crisis is...

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