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The Health Costs of Cost Sharing. [PDF]
Abstract What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a function of their birth month, beyond which out-of-pocket costs ...
Chandra A, Flack E, Obermeyer Z.
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Cost-sharing in Parking Games [PDF]
In this paper, we study the total displacement statistic of parking functions from the perspective of cooperative game theory. We introduce parking games, which are coalitional cost-sharing games in characteristic function form derived from the total ...
Jennifer Elder +3 more
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Impact of cost sharing on quality improvement and profits under uncertain demand: The case of a textile and garment supply chain. [PDF]
The study explores the strategic pricing and quality improvement decisions under uncertain demand in a three-layer textile and garment supply chain.
Qigui Lang, Jianfeng Hu, Jinjin Liu
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As traditional supply chains face increasingly severe environmental issues, and as countries promote green development and sustainable development policy concepts, cultivating green supply chain operation models is gradually coming to be highly valued by
Xin Li, Guanlai Zhu
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Multidisciplinary Firms and the Treatment of Chronic Pain: A Case Study of Low Back Pain
Sixteen million people suffer with chronic low back pain and related healthcare expenditures can be as high as $USD 635 billion. Current pain treatments help a significant number of acute pain patients, allowing them to obtain various treatments and then
Julie G. Pilitsis +3 more
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Discontinuation of cost sharing in Uganda
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of ending cost sharing on use of outpatient services and how this was perceived by health workers and members of a health unit management committee.
Burnham Gilbert M. +3 more
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Fair division in Shaplay sense - case studies
Objectives The aim of the work is to determine the Shapley value for the considered cases, important from the point of view of financial management. Material and methods Case descriptions, game theory, Shapley value Results In the examples considered ...
Agnieszka Surowiec, Tomasz Warowny
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Combinatorial cost sharing [PDF]
We introduce a combinatorial variant of the cost sharing problem: several services can be provided to each player and each player values every combination of services differently. A publicly known cost function specifies the cost of providing every possible combination of services. A combinatorial cost sharing mechanism is a protocol that decides which
Shahar Dobzinski, Shahar Ovadia
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For a long time, the problem of wind and light power curtailment is prominent for Northwest Power Grid. The provinces in the northwest China have mutual complementary characteristics in installed generator units and power consumption characteristics, and
Xiaowei MA +7 more
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Background By increasing cost sharing, high‐deductible health plans (HDHPs) aim to reduce low‐value health care use. The association of HDHPs with health care use and costs in patients with chronic cardiovascular disease is unknown.
Ravi Gupta +5 more
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