Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets
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Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets
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Author : Xing Wu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets written by Xing Wu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Over the last decades, health economics has turned into one of the most active research fields within economics. The structure of health care markets varies enormously across countries, largely influenced by competition among suppliers, the regulation of markets and patient preferences. This dissertation presents an analysis of health care markets especially focusing on price competition and quality competition. Under price competition, a pair of asymmetric pure strategy price equilibria exists in a model with income constraints for the specific case that two physicians locate at the maximum distance from each other and patients pay the same marginal transportation cost. Under quality competition, I investigate the interplay of market transparency and semi-altruism - a specific and interesting aspect unique to markets for health care. Market transparency and semi-altruism show ambiguous effects on welfare. The more altruistic physicians provides weakly higher quality than the less altruistic one. Moreover, I explore individual and social incentives for hospital mergers and their interaction with transparency and find that higher transparency does not always lead to higher quality and higher social welfare. The results indicate that quality is lower after merger. A hospital merger leads to a higher social welfare if the efficiency gains from the merger are sufficiently large. ; eng
Four Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets
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Author : Markus Vomhof
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Four Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets written by Markus Vomhof and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Five Essays On Competition And Regulation In Health Care Markets
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Author : Kurt Richard Brekke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Five Essays On Competition And Regulation In Health Care Markets written by Kurt Richard Brekke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets
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Author : Emily Walden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Essays On Competition In Health Care Markets written by Emily Walden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
In these essays, I empirically estimate the impact of interactions between primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists on physician behavior. In the first chapter, I examine the impact that the acquisition of PCPs by firms employing specialists has on patient referral patterns in markets where integration takes place. In the second chapter, I estimate a model of physician entry behavior to understand the extent to which PCPs and specialists consider the number of physicians of the other type in the market when selecting which markets to enter.
Three Essays On Market Structure Competition Prices Health Spending And Quality In The Us Healthcare System
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Author : James R Godwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Three Essays On Market Structure Competition Prices Health Spending And Quality In The Us Healthcare System written by James R Godwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and yet it performs poorly on measures of access, process quality and outcomes relative to other wealthy nations. One hypothesis that may explain the relatively poor performance of the United States' healthcare system per dollar spent is that markets for hospitals, physician services, and insurance are highly consolidated and lack competition. This dissertation contributes to the body of literature seeking to measure healthcare market structure and assess the relationship between this market structure and unit prices, overall spending, and healthcare quality. The first paper in this dissertation, "The Association between Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration and Outpatient Physician Prices Paid by Commercial Insurers: New Evidence," demonstrates market-level associations between vertical integration among hospitals and physicians and higher prices for outpatient care. The second essay, "How Hospital-Owned Physician Organizations are Associated with Healthcare Prices, Expenditures, and Quality," analyzes vertical integration and prices, quality, and total patient spending, building on the findings of the first essay using physician and hospital level claims data. This study finds that vertical integration is associated with higher levels of annual spending for patients attributed to vertically integrated providers, but interpretation of association between vertical integration and outpatient prices is confounded by pre-intervention trends. Analysis of CMS hospital outcome measures does not show associations between vertical integration at a hospital level and quality. Finally, the third essay, "Automated Delineation of Hospital Market Boundaries in California," explores geographic market definition in healthcare, an important topic in research and antitrust action, while assessing the application of community detection methods in this field. This study finds that community detection methods group hospitals with higher accuracy than other geographic markets as measured by patient flows and may offer promise for merger screening, research on market concentration, and research on geographic variation in healthcare. The final chapter reviews overarching limitations of the dissertation, outlines directions for future research, and comments on potential policy approaches to promote competition and address the symptoms that may result from highly consolidated healthcare markets
Three Essays On Competition And Health Insurance Markets
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Author : Juan Gabriel Fernandez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Three Essays On Competition And Health Insurance Markets written by Juan Gabriel Fernandez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Abstract: Health care systems are complex organizations. Multiple agents interact in different settings to provide health care, each one of them with different objectives and information. How markets are organized and which actions are allowed, has a direct impact on the incentives agents face when making health care choices. In this dissertation, I study the determinants and effects of these choices on market outcomes, focusing on private health insurance markets. The first chapter provides insights about health insurance markets in which workers, rather than firms, choose insurance plans in an imperfect competition setting. Using a unique dataset that includes every person enrolled in private plans in Chile in 2009, I estimate underlying preference parameters over health insurance features. I find large heterogeneity in the valuation of these features across age-sex-groups and individual types. Individual characteristics play an important role on health plan choices and therefore, can be used by insurers to design plans targeted to specific groups and for patient selection. The second chapter presents a theoretical model where private insurers compete with a free public alternative to attract clients. Using a two-type model I show that if private insurance companies offer a non-rationing alternative and the public system rationing is done through random selection, an efficiency trap may exist. A marginal increase in the budget allocated to the public system can potentially reduce the expected welfare for all types. This result extends to a model with multiple types, but the negative welfare impact is offset by a crowding-in effect among the rich. Finally, the third chapter provides a general analytical framework that can be used to evaluate risk selection under different health care models. The model is based on the interactions between the four key agents present in every health care system: sponsors, health plans, providers and customers. This framework is used to review risk selection in four countries in the Americas -Canada, Chile, Colombia, and the U.S.-, showing how regulatory policies both create and ameliorate it, and in some cases are as important as risk adjustment, risk sharing and risk selection strategies for reducing risk selection.
Healthy Markets
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Author : Mark A. Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Healthy Markets written by Mark A. Peterson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medical categories.
Discusses the various implications of the new managed-care health care systems.
Competition And Quality In Health Care Markets
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Author : Martin Gaynor
language : en
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Release Date : 2006
Competition And Quality In Health Care Markets written by Martin Gaynor and has been published by Now Publishers Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
Provides an economic assessment of the impact of competition on quality in health care markets. This book offers performance standards for competition; findings from economic theory; and, empirical evidence on health care competition and quality.
Change Consolidation And Competition In Health Care Markets
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Author : Martin Gaynor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Change Consolidation And Competition In Health Care Markets written by Martin Gaynor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Competition categories.
The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust enforcement authorities like the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as courts and legislators at both the federal and state levels, are struggling with the implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper, we summarize the nature of the changes in the structure of the health care industry. We will focus on the markets for health insurance, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care industry for competition, efficiency, and public policy. As will become apparent, this area offers a number of intriguing questions for inquisitive researchers.
Industrial Organization Of Health Care Markets
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Author : Benjamin R. Handel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Industrial Organization Of Health Care Markets written by Benjamin R. Handel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
In this paper we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply them to policy-relevant questions. We focus particularly on the I.O. models and empirical methods and analyses that researchers have formulated to address policy-relevant questions, although we also provide an overview of the institutional facts and findings that inform them. We divide the chapter into two broad sections: (i) papers considering competition and price-setting among insurers and providers and (ii) papers focused specifically on insurance and market design. The former set of papers is largely concerned with models of oligopolistic competition; it is often focused on the US commercial insurance market where prices are market-determined rather than being set administratively. The latter focuses on insurance market design with an emphasis on issues raised by asymmetric information, leading to adverse selection and moral hazard. In addition, we discuss the literature on consumer choice frictions in this market and the significant implications of those frictions for I.O. questions.