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Balance billing: the patients' perspective
We study the effects of 'balance billing', i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be just...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-1-14 |