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Duplicative Medications in Patients Who Visit Multiple Medical Institutions and Their Implications for Drug Expenditures in Japan

Kinoshita, Hiroki; Kobayashi, Yasuki; Fukuda, Takashi - 2007

. Patients who were dispensed all drugs from external dispensing pharmacies (vs. from physicians or hospital pharmacies) tended … separation reduces the frequency of duplicative medications. To reduce duplicative medications, physicians and pharmacists need …

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The Gatekeeping Role of General Practitioners' : Does Patients' Information Matter?

Gonzalez, Paula - 2007

We deal with a principal-agent model in which the health authority acts as a principal for both a patient and a General Practitioner (GP). In this framework, we study the role of GPs as filters for secondary care, emphasizing the implications that patients' information may have for health...

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How Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas

Paik, Myungho; Black, Bernard S.; Hyman, David A.; … - 2012

The elderly account for a disproportionate share of medical spending, but little is known about how they are treated by the medical malpractice system, or how tort reform affects elderly claimants. We compare paid medical malpractice claims brought by elderly plaintiffs in Texas during 1988-2009...

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The Regulation of Medical Malpractice in Japan

Leflar, Robert B - 2013

How Japanese legal and social institutions handle medical errors is little known outside Japan. For almost all of the 20th century, a paternalistic paradigm prevailed. Characteristics of the legal environment affecting Japanese medicine included few attorneys handling medical cases, low...

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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data

Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...

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Federalization Snowballs : The Need for National Action in Medical Malpractice Reform

Moncrieff, Abigail R. - 2011

Because tort law generally and healthcare regulation specifically are traditional state functions and because medical, legal, and insurance practices are highly localized, legal scholars have long believed that medical malpractice falls within the states' exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty....

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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany : A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2010

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany : A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Schreyogg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

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Unhealthy Pressure : How Physician Pay Demands Put the Squeeze on Provincial Health-Care Budgets

Hurley, Jeremiah; Grant, Hugh - 2013

In the 11 years since the Romanow Commission warned that the income of physicians was threatening to become a … more than he or she was just a decade ago. All of this has occurred while physicians have actually provided slightly fewer … provinces and physicians for public support, each with its own claim to being the guardian of public health care. In the last …

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Does Physician Pay Affect Procedure Choice and Patient Health? Evidence from Medicaid C-Section Use

Alexander, Diane - 2017

newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results—when Medicaid pays doctors relatively …

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