Prospective payment systems and discretionary coding-Evidence from English mental health providers [0.03%]
美国住院精神病医院付费系统的激励效应分析
Giuseppe Moscelli,Rowena Jacobs,Nils Gutacker et al.
Giuseppe Moscelli et al.
Reimbursement of English mental health hospitals is moving away from block contracts and towards activity and outcome-based payments. Under the new model, patients are categorised into 20 groups with similar levels of need, called clusters,...
Economic conditions and sleep [0.03%]
经济状况与睡眠
Paul Niekamp
Paul Niekamp
This paper uses the American Time Use Survey from 2003 to 2015 to analyze the effect of economic conditions on sleep duration. Prior work has found that increases in the employment rate cause sleep duration of individuals to fall. No previo...
Attribute level overlap (and color coding) can reduce task complexity, improve choice consistency, and decrease the dropout rate in discrete choice experiments [0.03%]
属性水平的重叠(和颜色编码)可以减少任务复杂性,改善选择一致性,并降低离散选择实验中的退出率
Marcel F Jonker,Bas Donkers,Esther de Bekker-Grob et al.
Marcel F Jonker et al.
A randomized controlled discrete choice experiment (DCE) with 3,320 participating respondents was used to investigate the individual and combined impact of level overlap and color coding on task complexity, choice consistency, survey satisf...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Health economics. 2019 Mar;28(3):350-363. DOI:10.1002/hec.3846 2019
Carlo Alberto Biscardo,Alessandro Bucciol,Paolo Pertile
Carlo Alberto Biscardo
We utilize a large administrative dataset of sickness leave in Italy (a) to investigate whether private firms are more effective than the public insurer in choosing who to monitor and (b) to study the correlation between potentially opportu...
Dishonesty in health care practice: A behavioral experiment on upcoding in neonatology [0.03%]
医疗实践中的不诚实行为——新生儿科的大病诊断开大处方行为实验
Heike Hennig-Schmidt,Hendrik Jürges,Daniel Wiesen
Heike Hennig-Schmidt
Dishonest behavior significantly increases the cost of medical care provision. Upcoding of patients is a common form of fraud to attract higher reimbursements. Imposing audit mechanisms including fines to curtail upcoding is widely discusse...
Shun-Ichiro Bessho,Yoko Ibuka
Shun-Ichiro Bessho
Economic theory predicts that vaccination policies at the local level can be negatively affected by the policies of neighboring regions because of free-riding motives, whereas positive dependency may exist due to policy diffusions among loc...
The effect of cancer diagnosis on switching health insurance in medicare [0.03%]
医疗保险中癌症诊断对健康保险转换的影响
Brett Lissenden
Brett Lissenden
Because health insurance is intended to protect patients in the event of a health shock, it is important to evaluate health insurance policy in the context of patients who experience health shocks. I measure the effect of cancer diagnosis o...
The impact of financial incentives on health and health care: Evidence from a large wellness program [0.03%]
金融激励措施对健康和医疗卫生的影响:一项大规模福利计划的证据
Liran Einav,Stephanie Lee,Jonathan Levin
Liran Einav
Workplace wellness programs have become increasingly common in the United States, although there is not yet consensus regarding the ability of such programs to improve employees' health and reduce health care costs. In this paper, we study ...
How robust are reference pricing studies on outpatient medical procedures? Three different preprocessing techniques applied to difference-in differences [0.03%]
差异分析的预处理方法如何影响门诊医疗服务参考定价研究的结论?三种不同的预处理技术应用于差异分析模型的效果评估
Timothy Tyler Brown,Juan Pablo Atal
Timothy Tyler Brown
The evaluation of policies that are not randomly assigned on outcomes generated by nonlinear data generating processes often requires modeling assumptions for which there is little theoretical guidance. This paper revisits previously publis...
Tomoki Fujii
Tomoki Fujii
Absenteeism of health workers in developing countries is common and can severely undermine the reliability of the health system. Therefore, it is important to understand where the prevalence of absenteeism is high. We develop a simple imput...