This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generations model that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures offsetting the influence of a worsening environment...

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

Panel data and Hsiao's version of Granger non-causality tests are used to revisit the relationship between GDP and aggregate health care spending, their growth rate series and de-trended series. The possible causality is assumed to be valid in either or in both directions. For the sample of 34...

Seit dem rapiden Wachstum der Ausgaben für Gesundheit zu Beginn der 70er Jahre steht die Analyse der nominalen Ausgaben im Mittelpunkt des wissenschaftlichen und politischen Interesses. Durch die Ermittlung aussagefähiger Preiszeitreihen für spezifische Behandlungsleistungen der Gesetzlichen...

Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zu den gegenwärtigen Problemen der GKV. Diskutiert wurden drei Themenkreise: Die wesentlichen Determinanten der Ausgabendynamik; Einnahmenschwäche in der GKV; Der Wettbewerb als Koordinationsinstrument in der...

Seit geraumer Zeit befindet sich Deutschland in einer Phase, die durch eine ungebremste Abnahme der Alterssterblichkeit gekennzeichnet ist. Da das Morbiditätsspektrum weit überwiegend von chronisch-degenerativen Krankheiten geprägt wird, wirft die zurückgehende Altersmortalität drei in...

In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...

Die direkte Abhängigkeit des umlagebasierten Finanzierungsverfahrens von der demographischen Entwicklung stellt die Soziale Pflegeversicherung mittel- und langfristig vor erhebliche Finanzierungsschwierigkeiten. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert die Arbeit unter Anwendung der Methode der...

Although cancer survival in general has improved in Australia over the past 30 years, Indigenous Australians, socioeconomically disadvantaged persons, and people living in remote areas still experience poorer health outcomes. This paper aims to describe the development of CancerCostMod, and to...

Does higher medical spending improve quality of care? We estimate the effect of changes in regulated reimbursement prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications, process quality, and patient satisfaction. We exploit an...

Patient navigation has expanded as a promising approach to improve cancer care coordination and patient adherence. This paper addresses the need to identify the evidence on the economic impact of patient navigation in colorectal cancer, following the Health Economic Evaluation Publication...

Introduction: Ghana introduced capitation payment under National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), beginning with pilot in the Ashanti region, in 2012 with a key objective of controlling utilization and related cost. This study sought to analyse utilization and claims expenditure data before and...

Im Jahre 1999 betrugen die GKV-Ausgaben für apothekenpflichtige Arzneimittel im Rezept DM 36,15 Mrd. Der Vertriebskostenanteil in Form der Apothekenbetriebsspanne betrug 27,3 % des Bruttoumsatzes. Die Leistungsausgaben der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen im Rahmen des Versorgungsauftrages für...

Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops über das Konfliktfeld Arzneimittelversorgung. Diskutiert wurden die drei Themenkreise Steuerungselemente der Arzneimittelausgaben, Arzneimitteltherapie außerhalb der Regelversorgung sowie Liberalisierung der...

In diesem Buch werden die diversen Steuerungsinstrumente des deutschen Arzneimittelmarktes und deren Zusammenhänge analysiert. Dies beinhaltet unter anderem die Festbetragsregelungen, Höchstbeträge, Rabattverträge, Zuzahlungsbefreiungsregelungen, Aut-Idem-Regelung, Zielvereinbarungen, die...

This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generations model that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures offsetting the influence of a worsening environment...

A number of studies have estimated the income elasticity of health care expenditure to identify whether health care is a necessary or luxury product. However, the issue has received less attention in developing countries, especially in Asian economies. The current study for the first time has...

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...

In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...

We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...