| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12623 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12623 |
| Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care | |
| Christopher C. Afendulis; Daniel P. Kessler | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-10-20 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | What are the important tradeoffs in consulting a single expert for both diagnosis and treatment? On one hand, an integrated diagnostician may have the incentive to recommend treatments that are not in the buyer's best interests. On the other hand, joint production of diagnosis and treatment by an integrated diagnostician may be more efficient. We examine an important special case of this problem: the costs and health outcomes of elderly Medicare beneficiaries with coronary artery disease. We compare the empirical consequences of diagnosis by an "integrated" cardiologist -- one who can provide surgical treatment -- to the consequences of diagnosis by a non-integrated cardiologist. Diagnosis by an integrated cardiologist leads, on net, to higher health spending but similar health outcomes. The net effect contains three components: reduced spending and improved outcomes from better allocation of patients to surgical treatment options; increased spending conditional on treatment option; and worse outcomes from poorer provision of non-surgical care. We conclude that accounting more completely for doctors' incentives to refer patients in setting reimbursements, or in the alternative, allowing doctors more freedom to make and receive payments for referrals, could reduce spending and improve quality. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12623 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570285 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher C. Afendulis,Daniel P. Kessler. Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care. 2006. |
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| w12623.pdf（135KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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