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Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information

We analyze a rationale for official authorization of patient dumping in the prospective payment policy framework. We show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in h...

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Autor principal: Takahara, Tsuyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27995577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-016-0135-1