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mechanisms in a formerly sectorally separated health care system. These reforms marked the launch of managed care in Germany that … on the structure of health care expenditure in Germany during the start-up phase of managed care from 2004 to 2008. We …
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mechanisms in a formerly sectorally separated health care system. These reforms marked the launch of managed care in Germany that … on the structure of health care expenditure in Germany during the start-up phase of managed care from 2004 to 2008. We …
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I estimate the welfare, both gross and net, provided by the Medicare managed care program in 1999 through 2002. First, I estimate a model of demand for the benefits offered by managed care plans to Medicare beneficiaries. I then use the demand estimates to form estimates of welfare provided by...
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-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference … co-payments. We use quarterly data on reference priced drugs covered by the social health insurance in Germany over the …
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Background: We analysed the impact of clinical study design for oncological pharmaceuticals on the subsequent price … Health Insurance Funds. The analysis was conducted for all oncology pharmaceuticals that underwent the early benefit … assessment in Germany since its introduction in 2011 up to September 2016. Methods: It was differentiated between additive (new …
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This chapter summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of...
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We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the incentives created by the markup on drugs sold. Using comprehensive physician-level data from Switzerland, we exploit the fact that there is regional variation in the dispensing...
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In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
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This paper studies interaction of pharmaceutical regulation and parallel trade in a North-South framework. An innovative Örm located in the North can sell its drug only in the North or in both countries. Governments may limit reimbursement for the drug. Reimbursement limits reduce the Örmís...
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