| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28998 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28998 |
| Physician-Induced Demand: Evidence from China\u2019s Drug Price Zero-Markup Policy | |
| Hanming Fang; Xiaoyan Lei; Julie Shi; Xuejie Yi | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-07-05 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use a natural experiment in China's health care reform, in which the government mandated zero markups for drugs sold in public hospitals, to study physician-induced demand for medical care. We develop a theoretical model that robustly predicts that the drug price zero markup policy (ZMP) will lead to a reduction in the demand for drugs but an increase in the demand for non-drug services, only when the demands for drugs and non-drug services are at least partially physician induced. Our model also yields testable predictions of the impact of the ZMP regarding the equilibrium number of treated patients. Exploiting the staggered rollout of the ZMP and a unique claims data set, we find that, at the admission level, the reform decreases drug expenses by 63.4 log points (47.0 percent), but the reduction in drug expenses is almost fully substituted by the increases in expenses for non-drug services. Quantitatively similar results are also obtained at the physician and at the hospital levels. We also show that the ZMP reduces the number of patients in the treated hospitals, as predicted by the model, and that the reform has little impact on the quality of health care proxied by the readmission rate. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28998 |
| 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/586672 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hanming Fang,Xiaoyan Lei,Julie Shi,et al. Physician-Induced Demand: Evidence from China\u2019s Drug Price Zero-Markup Policy. 2021. |
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