Healthcare providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending and patient health. This paper studies the effects of a change in the payment scheme for hospitals in Norway. In 2010, payments for patients discharged on the day of admission were substantially decreased, while payments for stays lasting longer than one day were increased. This gave hospitals incentives to shift patients from one-day stays to two-day stays, or to decrease the admission of one-day stays. I study hospital responses by exploiting the variable size of price changes across diagnoses in a difference-in-differences framework. I find no evidence that hospitals respond to price changes, and capacity constraints do not appear to expla...
AbstractIn several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospi...
We study whether and how physicians respond to nancial incentives, making use of detailed register...
We estimate the effects of wait time for orthopedic surgery on health and labor market outcomes of N...
Health care providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending...
Healthcare providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending ...
Financial incentives in the health care sector are one important tool that has been employed to achi...
Under Norway's prospective payment system, which was in existence from 1972 to 1980, hospital costs ...
In several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospital prov...
In recent years, a series of wide-ranging reforms designed to make greater use of market mechanisms ...
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives...
We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competitio...
Activity-based financing (ABF) was implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector from 1 July 1997. A ...
This thesis studies the effects of delayed discharge fees in Finland. Excessive lengths of hospital ...
Background Whether activity-based financing of hospitals creates incentives to treat...
We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competitio...
AbstractIn several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospi...
We study whether and how physicians respond to nancial incentives, making use of detailed register...
We estimate the effects of wait time for orthopedic surgery on health and labor market outcomes of N...
Health care providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending...
Healthcare providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending ...
Financial incentives in the health care sector are one important tool that has been employed to achi...
Under Norway's prospective payment system, which was in existence from 1972 to 1980, hospital costs ...
In several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospital prov...
In recent years, a series of wide-ranging reforms designed to make greater use of market mechanisms ...
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives...
We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competitio...
Activity-based financing (ABF) was implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector from 1 July 1997. A ...
This thesis studies the effects of delayed discharge fees in Finland. Excessive lengths of hospital ...
Background Whether activity-based financing of hospitals creates incentives to treat...
We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competitio...
AbstractIn several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospi...
We study whether and how physicians respond to nancial incentives, making use of detailed register...
We estimate the effects of wait time for orthopedic surgery on health and labor market outcomes of N...