| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP2477 |
| DP2477 Maintenance, Utilization, and Depreciation along the Business Cycle | |
| Tryphon Kollintzas; Fabrice Collard | |
| 发表日期 | 2000-06-27 |
| 出版年 | 2000 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries is the definition, by the third-party payer, of a set of preferred providers. The insured patients have different access rules to such providers when ill. The rules specify the co-payments patient must pay when using an out-of-plan care provider. We propose to study the competitive process among providers in terms of both prices and qualities. Competition is influenced by the status of providers as in-plan or out-of-plan care providers. Also, there is a moral hazard of provider choice related to the trade-off between freedom to choose and the need to hold down costs. Our main findings are that we can define a reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors) such that the first-best allocation is achieved. In contrast, some type of regulation is needed to achieve the optimal solution when decisions are sequential (specialized health-care sector). We also derive some normative conclusions on the way price controls should be implemented in some European Union Member States. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Mixed oligopoly Health care |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp2477 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/531555 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tryphon Kollintzas,Fabrice Collard. DP2477 Maintenance, Utilization, and Depreciation along the Business Cycle. 2000. |
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