Hidden Costs and Inflated Prices Exploring the Cost of Becoming Informed and the Role of Bargaining Power for Uninsured Patients within the U.S. Health Care System The following paper studies the payment problem faced by uninsured patients within the U.S. health care system in order to learn about the determinants of chargemaster prices. A simple hybrid pricing model (one that allows patients to negotiate down prices) is formalized that allows for the study of the relation between chargemaster (list) prices, patients\u27 cost of becoming informed, and the degree of power disparity between patients and providers in billing negotiations. Using patient payment data for office-based provider visits collected from the MEPS (2002-2012), I find th...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.The 3rd chapter...
The pricing behavior of non-profit hospitals is an important issue given the size of the non-profit ...
Research has shown that managed care (MC) slowed the rate of growth in health care spending in the 1...
Many important issues in business-to-business markets involve price discrimination and negotiated pr...
This paper proposes a pricing model for health care markets wherein providers and patients play a Na...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2014.Cataloged from ...
This dissertation consists of four chapters each looking at one dimension of the impact of market co...
The first chapter of this dissertation replicates, re-specifies, and re-estimates Cardon and Hendel'...
Thesis advisor: Charles MurryThis dissertation addresses questions in the pharmaceutical and medical...
This dissertation studies the role of principal-agent problems as a barrier to market efficiency in ...
We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospi-tals and managed care organizations (MCO...
Chapter 1 investigates whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply, techn...
Health care costs continue to rise, forcing consumers to make difficult choices between seeking expe...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016."June 2016." Ca...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.The 3rd chapter...
The pricing behavior of non-profit hospitals is an important issue given the size of the non-profit ...
Research has shown that managed care (MC) slowed the rate of growth in health care spending in the 1...
Many important issues in business-to-business markets involve price discrimination and negotiated pr...
This paper proposes a pricing model for health care markets wherein providers and patients play a Na...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2014.Cataloged from ...
This dissertation consists of four chapters each looking at one dimension of the impact of market co...
The first chapter of this dissertation replicates, re-specifies, and re-estimates Cardon and Hendel'...
Thesis advisor: Charles MurryThis dissertation addresses questions in the pharmaceutical and medical...
This dissertation studies the role of principal-agent problems as a barrier to market efficiency in ...
We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospi-tals and managed care organizations (MCO...
Chapter 1 investigates whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply, techn...
Health care costs continue to rise, forcing consumers to make difficult choices between seeking expe...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016."June 2016." Ca...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.The 3rd chapter...
The pricing behavior of non-profit hospitals is an important issue given the size of the non-profit ...
Research has shown that managed care (MC) slowed the rate of growth in health care spending in the 1...