Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 23 (2022) 9, pp. 1601-1612
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in their last 4 years of...