Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

The main objective of risk adjustment in systems of regulated competition on health insurance markets is the removal of incentives for undesirable risk selection. We introduce a simple conceptual framework to clarify how the definition of acceptable costs and the distinction between legitimate...

Der Bundesverband der Arzneimittel-Hersteller e.V. hat einen Forschungsauftrag zur Preisregulierung von erstattungsfähigen Arzneimitteln im generikafähigen Markt in der GKV nach dem GKV-WSG vergeben. Ausgangspunkt ist, dass das Scharfstellen der Rabattverträge zu einem aggressiven...