abstract：:The production of health care services has the unique feature that physicians do not face explicit costs for hospital inputs. This paper develops models of the production process given alternative hospital and medical staff relationships, and analyzes the impact of the change in hospital reimbursement under Medicare f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Custer WS,Moser JW,Musacchio RA,Willke RJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:In a 1975 paper, Neuhauser and Lewicki analysed a colorectal cancer screening policy approved by the American Cancer Society. Their analysis yielded an incremental cost per case detected in excess of $47 million. This vivid demonstration of the impact of marginal analysis is frequently cited by health economists and i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Brown K,Burrows C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinants of health insurance choices are estimated from a logit model and data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey. Employees offered a choice between traditional health insurance plans chose the high option and the low option in roughly equal numbers. About a quarter of the employees who were offere...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Short PF,Taylor AK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Average wages from 2,275 general hospitals in metropolitan areas across the U.S. were used to test for a wage gradient descending from hospitals in the central city through those in urbanized and finally non-urbanized areas of each county-defined metropolitan area. Significant gradients were found in MSAs of all sizes...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hendricks AM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used 1982-1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid significantly reduced the rate of inflation in average costs per admission and per patient day, while slightly in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Robinson JC,Phibbs CS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of hospital competition have found that greater competition leads to higher hospital costs. In this paper we report how the behavior of California's hospitals has changed since the introduction of programs intended to contain the rate of increase of hospital costs. Using data that cover the period pre...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zwanziger J,Melnick GA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies of demand for mental health services showed much greater use by those with more generous insurance, but this difference may have been due to adverse selection, rather than in response to price. This paper avoids the adverse selection problem by using data from a randomized trial, the RAND Health ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Manning WG,Wells KB

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 166 general hospitals in New York State (1981) is used to estimate a quadratic and logarithmic long-run cost function. Both equations fit the data very well but give very different results. The quadratic appears in confirm the commonly-held view of a shallow U-shaped average cost curve, whereas the log funct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vitaliano DF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article extends several recent contributions that have compared the physician-induced demand hypothesis to the theory of a monopoly where advertising is included as a decision variable. By introducing a standard profit-maximizing model with inducement, it derives the conditions for the optimum level of inducement...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stano M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of this Journal, McRae and Tapon (1985) use the Canadian experience with compulsory patent licensing and three provincial drug reimbursement programs to evaluate post-patent barriers to entry in the pharmaceutical industry. In this paper we provide additional evidence on the influence of differing pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gorecki PK

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of the diffusion of innovations have not addressed adequately econometric problems that are characteristic of such analyses. Reanalysis of data for five innovations using an estimator with desirable statistical properties results in a considerably revised estimate of the impact of prospective reimbur...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lee RH,Waldman DM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By comparing aggregated physician utilization data in Michigan with a disaggregated measure of the intensity with which physicians treat their patients, the article shows that the availability effect found in many studies of the physician services markets is due to the larger number of providers seen by patients in ph...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stano M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a neoclassical utility maximization model of physician behavior in which the physician determines the price of physician office and hospital visits, the utilization rates for physician office and hospital visits and hospital days, and the resources and physician time inputs in the production of vis...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McCombs JS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigates production and cost effects of teaching in radiology departments. If students are substitutes for physicians, production costs may be less in teaching than in non-teaching hospitals for a given level of output. Empirical results for Veterans Administration hospitals suggest that teaching reduces costs for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hosek JR,Palmer AR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article investigates the impact of unions on the wages of hospital workers. Our OLS findings agree with previous OLS studies--unions increase registered nurses' (RNs) wages by five percent and by about eight to ten percent for other hospital workers. By contrast, we find (after correcting for selectivity bias in ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Adamache KW,Sloan FA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute care hospitals have long been viewed as multi-product 'firms', a characteristic which has necessitated special adjustments for cost analyses of this sector. Output mix adjustment has generally had an ad hoc flavour, with service/facility proxies and patient mix variables often being used interchangeably. Where s...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barer ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00