A large and growing number of adults are covered by public insurance, and the Affordable Care Act is predicted to dramatically increase public coverage over the next several years. This study evaluates how such large increases in public coverage affect provider behavior and patient wait times by...

A large and growing number of adults are covered by public insurance, and the Affordable Care Act is predicted to dramatically increase public coverage over the next several years. This study evaluates how such large increases in public coverage affect provider behavior and patient wait times by...

Grenzüberschreitende Patientenbewegungen sind spätestens mit Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends in den Mittelpunkt gesundheitsökonomischer Betrachtungen gelangt. Besonders an der Grenze zwischen Österreich und Ungarn ist seit Jahren ein reger Patientenstrom im zahnmedizinischen Bereich zu...

We investigated the determinants of disparities in the regional density of private dentists in Austria. Specifically, we focused on the relationship between the density of private dentists and their public counterparts, thereby controlling for other possible covariates of dentist density....

We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on the benefits of prevention. Our results document a...

We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on the benefits of prevention. Our results document a...

Das modifizierte Ertragswertverfahren wird immer mehr zum Standardverfahren bei der Bewertung von Arzt- und Zahnarztpraxen. In diesem Beitrag werden die beeinflussenden Parameter im Hinblick auf ihre quantitativen Auswirkungen untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Länge des Ergebniszeitraums...

UK NHS contracts mediate the relationship between dental and medical practitioners as independent contractors, and the state which reimburses them for their services to patients. There have been successive revisions of dental and medical contracts since the 1990s alongside a change in the levels...

We investigate the organisational field of general dental practice and how agents change or maintain the institution of values associated with the everyday work of health care provision. Our dataset comprise archival literature and policy documents, interview data from field level actors, as...

To investigate how changes to the dental remuneration system have translated into disincentives to delegate to dental therapists in dental practices.