A model of the impact of reimbursement schemes on health plan choice.

abstract：:This paper examines the effects of the reference pricing program implemented by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) in 2012. The program uses targeted cost-sharing to incentivize patient price shopping. We find that the program leads to a 10.3% increase in the use of low-price providers and red...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Whaley CM,Guo C,Brown TT

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude of the value of a statistical life (VSL) is critical to the evaluation of many health and safety initiatives. To date, the large and rigorous VSL research literature has not explicitly accommodated publication selectivity bias (i.e., the reduced probability that insignificant or negative VSL values are r...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Doucouliagos C,Stanley TD,Giles M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations is difficult because there is a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of their reimbursement incentives and other programmatic features. We examine how variation in reimbursement incentives and administration among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spendin...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Marton J,Yelowitz A,Talbert JC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing the adoption of generic drugs has the potential to improve static efficiency in a health system without harming pharmaceutical innovation. However, very little is known about the timing of generic adoption and diffusion. No prior study has empirically examined the differential launch times of generics acros...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Costa-Font J,McGuire A,Varol N

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a model where a genetic test reveals whether an individual has a low or high probability of developing a disease. Testing is not mandatory, but agents have to reveal their test results to the insurers, facing a discrimination risk. A costly prevention effort allows agents with a genetic predisposition to de...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bardey D,De Donder P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US health insurance industry is highly concentrated, and health insurance premiums are high and rising rapidly. Policymakers have focused on the possible link between the two, leading to ACA provisions to increase insurer competition. However, while market power may enable insurers to include higher profit margins...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Trish EE,Herring BJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the impact of parental illness on children's education. We find that only father's illness decreases children's school attendance. Father's illness also has long-term impacts on child education, as it decreases children's likelihood of completing primary school and leads to fewer years of schooling...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Alam SA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine whether patients covered by workers' compensation insurance, which covers the cost of medical care for injured workers without cost sharing and with relatively little oversight, are charged more for treatment or receive more services than patients covered by traditional insurance. Our findings indicate that...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baker LC,Krueger AB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tiered and narrow provider networks are mechanisms implemented by health plans to reduce health care costs. The benefits of narrow networks for consumers usually come in the form of lower premiums in exchange for access to fewer providers. Narrow networks may disrupt continuity of care and access to usual sources of c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Higuera L,Carlin CS,Dowd B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of early life malaria exposure on cognition in sample of Mexican adults, using the nationwide introduction of malaria eradication efforts to identify causal impacts. The core findings are that birth year exposure to malaria eradication was associated with increases in Raven Progressive M...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Venkataramani AS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates a multiproduct variable cost function using data on a sample of California hospitals. The results provide useful insights into the advantages and disadvantages of flexible functional forms for cost analysis. The translog function appears to provide reasonable estimates of marginal costs when evalu...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vita MG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that (i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and (ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on both sides of the la...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lehrer SF,Pereira NS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) was designed to spur the development of drugs for rare diseases. In principle, its design also incentivizes pharmaceutical firms to develop drugs for "rare" subdivisions of more prevalent diseases. I find that in response to this incentive, firms develop drugs for ODA-qualifying subdivisions ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Yin W

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a conceptual framework in which preferences about the distribution of future health gains depend on differences in four 'health streams'. These are as follows: (1) the amount of health to be gained; (2) the no-treatment profiles; (3) the amount of health experienced thus far: and (4) the amount of ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dolan PA,Olsen JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graduated driver licensing (GDL) is a critical policy tool for potentially improving teenage driving while reducing teen accident exposure. While previous studies demonstrated that GDL reduces teenage involvement in fatal crashes, much remains unanswered. We explore the mechanisms through which GDL influences accident...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Karaca-Mandic P,Ridgeway G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal care should improve infant health, yet research frequently finds only weak effects. If there are two kinds of pregnancies, 'complicated' and 'normal' ones, then combining these pregnancies may lead prenatal care to appear ineffective. Data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) offers com...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Conway KS,Deb P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EQ-5D is used in cost-effectiveness studies underlying many important health policy decisions. It comprises a survey instrument describing health states across five domains, and a system of utility values for each state. The original 3-level version of EQ-5D is being replaced with a more sensitive 5-level version but ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hernández-Alava M,Pudney S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose a flexible "two-part" random effects model (Olsen and Schafer, 2001; Tooze et al., 2002) for correlated medical cost data. Typically, medical cost data are right-skewed, involve a substantial proportion of zero values, and may exhibit heteroscedasticity. In many cases, such data are also obta...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Liu L,Strawderman RL,Cowen ME,Shih YC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally evaluated the effects of in-kind team incentives on health worker performance in El Salvador, with 38 out of 75 community health teams randomly assigned to performance incentives over a 12-month period. All teams received monitoring, performance feedback and recognition for their achievements allowin...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bernal P,Martinez S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late childhood and adolescence is a critical time for social and emotional development. Over the past two decades, this life stage has been hugely affected by the almost universal adoption of the internet as a source of information, communication, and entertainment. We use a large representative sample of over 6300 ch...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McDool E,Powell P,Roberts J,Taylor K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is proposed to assess and improve the performance of risk equalization models in competitive markets for individual health insurance, where compensation is intended for variation in observed expenditures due to so-called S(ubsidy)-type risk factors but not for variation due to other, so-called N(on-subsid...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stam PJ,van Vliet RC,van de Ven WP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The friction cost method has been proposed as an alternative to the human-capital approach of estimating indirect costs. We argue that the friction cost method is based on implausible assumptions not supported by neoclassical economic theory. Furthermore consistently applying the friction cost method would mean that t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Johannesson M,Karlsson G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of two vaccination policies - simple non-binding recommendations to vaccinate versus mandates requiring vaccination prior to childcare or kindergarten attendance - in the context of the only disease whose institutional features permit a credible examination of both: hepati...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lawler EC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals compete for patients by offering their doctors high quality services to a price war for the patients of payors? This paper uses time-series cross-sectional methods on California hospital discharge data from 1986-1994 to show the...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Melnick G,Zwanziger J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimates the impact of the price of alcoholic beverages on latent dimensions of current alcohol dependence and abuse. A three-part econometric model is used to estimate the impact of price on three latent dimensions (factors). For heavier drinking, the estimated price elasticity is -1.325 (P = 0.027); for ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Farrell S,Manning WG,Finch MD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model includes targeted fee increases, extended hours, performance-based initiatives, and patient enrolment. Using a long pane...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kantarevic J,Kralj B,Weinkauf D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses contracts to keep down costs while maintaining quality of health services when patient demand does not reflect quality. There is then a natural role for forms of contract that have emerged during the reforms of the NHS in Britain that differ from pure fixed price or cost reimbursement contracts. Th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chalkley M,Malcomson JM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study the interplay among competition, contractual commitment, income risk, and saving and borrowing in insuring consumers against both short-term healthcare expenses and longer-term changes in health status. Examining different combinations of firms' ability to commit to long-term contracts, consumers' access to cr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Wiseman T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nikolova S,Sinko A,Sutton M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent paper in this journal Abasolo and Tsuchiya [Abasolo, I., Tsuchiya, A., 2004. Exploring social welfare functions and violation of monotonicity: an example from inequalities in health. Journal of Health Economics 23, 313-329] have strongly argued for the use of a non-monotonic health related social welfare f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dutta I

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00