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Do hospitals respond to decreasing prices by supplying more services?
- Source :
- Health Economics, 29(2), 209-220. Wiley, Health Economics
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- Regulated prices are common in markets for medical care. We estimate the effect of changes in regulated reimbursement prices on volume of hospital care based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the overall level of reimbursement—with increasing prices for some hospitals and decreasing prices for others—without directly affecting the relative prices for different groups of patients or types of treatment. Based on administrative data, we find that hospitals react to increasing prices by decreasing the service supply and to decreasing prices by increasing the service supply. Moreover, we find some evidence that volume changes for hospitals with different price changes are nonlinear. We interpret our findings as evidence for a negative income effect of prices on volume of care.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Financing, Government
L21
Relative price
Medical care
03 medical and health sciences
Procurement
Germany
0502 economics and business
Humans
government expenditures and health
050207 economics
Research Articles
health care economics and organizations
Reimbursement
Service (business)
Finance
Health Services Needs and Demand
I11
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
L10
05 social sciences
Financial Management, Hospital
Hospitals
Hospital care
Insurance, Health, Reimbursement
Female
procurement
sense organs
Business
0305 other medical science
hospital care
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10991050 and 10579230
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bc6e0ac7e2c3d045859a682aa8447e1a