We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data to study the effects of public health insurance on the geography of consumer financial health. Exploiting the nearly universal eligibility for Medicare at age 65, we find a 30 percent reduction in the level of debts in collections...

In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of total prepaid financing as percent of total current health...

Gemäss den definitiven Zahlen nahmen die gesamten nominalen Gesundheitsausgaben im Jahr 2018 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 0.8% zu und somit weniger stark als in den Vorjahren. Das Verhältnis der Gesundheitsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) betrug 11.2% im Jahr 2018 (im Vergleich zu 11.5% im...

In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of total prepaid financing as percent of total current health...

Gemäss den vorläufigen Zahlen nahmen die gesamten nominalen Gesundheitsausgaben im Jahr 2017 um 2.6% zu und somit weniger stark als in den Vorjahren. Da das Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) jedoch ebenfalls deutlich langsamer wuchs, erhöhte sich das Verhältnis der Gesundheitsausgaben zum BIP erneut...

Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...

Solidarität bedeutet in der GKV zweierlei - auf der einen Seite ein Risikoausgleich zwischen niedrigen und hohen Risiken, die alle entsprechend einer durchschnittlichen Schadenserwartung zu gleichen Bedingungen versichert werden; auf der anderen Seite ein sozialer Ausgleich, der durch die...

This paper measures high medical expenses in ten developed countries, both overall and by income and age, providing some of the best evidence to date on the extent of high medical spending across and within countries. Using comparable household-level data on out-of pocket (OOP) medical...

"The first edition addressed the complexity of health care finance and tied everything into health care reimbursement and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). The book was designed to act as a reference source for the health care administrator to assist in navigating their organization through the...

This study is a critical analysis of health services purchasing undertaken by the PhilHealth, which implements the National Health Insurance Program of the Philippines. Purchasing is about how an institution should determine, negotiate for, and obtain health services on behalf of a group of...

This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health...