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Melnyk V, Gryga I, Stepurko T (2012) Informal patient payments in Bulgaria and Ukraine.

, 2012
Conference abstract Informal patient payments in Bulgaria and Ukraine Melnyk, Victoria; Gryga, Irena; Stepurko, Tetiana KEYWORDS: informal payments, informal patient payments, gratitude, bribe, Central and Eastern Europe countries.
Tatiana Andreeva (98349)
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Informal payments by patients, institutional trust and institutional asymmetry

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the extent of the practice of using informal payments for accessing the services of public clinics or hospitals across Europe and to explain the prevalence of this corrupt practice using the framework of institutional theory.
Horodnic, A., Williams, C., Ciobanu, C.-I., Drugus, D.   +3 more
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Ophthalmology Patient Perceptions of Open Payments Information [PDF]

JAMA Ophthalmology, 2018
Since 2014, medical industry payment data to physicians have been public via the Open Payments database. Patient opinions regarding these data help us to understand concerns and policymakers to improve reporting mechanisms for such payments.To assess patient perceptions of Open Payments information.This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was ...
Gregory E, Stein, Jonathan J, Kamler, Jonathan S, Chang   +2 more
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Causes of Informal Payments in Healthcare Services: A Systematic Review

Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi, 2023
Aim: In this study, it is aimed to reveal the reasons for informal payments in terms of both health service users and health care providers. Method: For this purpose, a search was conducted using the keywords " informal payment", " informal patient ...
İpek Camuz Berber, Elif Türkan Arslan
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The hidden financial burden of healthcare: a systematic literature review of informal payments in Sub-Saharan Africa [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2021
Background: Informal payments limit equitable access to healthcare. Despite being a common phenomenon, there is a need for an in-depth analysis of informal charging practices in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) context.
Kui Muraya, Dina Balabanova, Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux, Evelyn Kabia, Catherine Goodman   +5 more
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Informal Payments by Patients in Central and Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Institutional Perspective [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Confronted with a global pandemic, public healthcare systems are under pressure, making access to healthcare services difficult for patients. This provides fertile ground for using illegal practices such as informal payments to gain access. This paper aims to evaluate the use of informal payments by patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
Adrian V. Horodnic, Colin C. Williams, Răzvan Ionuț Drugă, Cristian Incaltarau   +3 more
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The inability to pay for health services in Central and Eastern Europe: evidence from six countries. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket payments for health services constitute a major financial burden for patients in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Individuals who are unable to pay use different coping strategies (e.g.
Rechel, Bernd, Golinowska, S., Groot, W., Groot, Wim, Sowada, Christoph, Golinowska, Stanisława, Pavlova, Milena, Tambor, M., Sowada, C., Pavlova, M.; id_orcid, Pavlova, M., Tambor, Marzena, Rechel, B.   +12 more
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Informal payments for inpatient health care in post-health transformation plan period: evidence from Iran

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background In 2014, a revision of the national medical tariffs for inpatient health care services took place in Iran, and a new hotline was set up to report informal payments.
Leila Doshmangir, Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Maryam Ghiasipour, Ali Aboutorabi, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev   +4 more
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Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information [PDF]

Health Economics Review, 2016
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 hospitals' rent extraction due to low-severity patients)
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Designing an Informal Payment Model for Patients Admitted in the Iran Health System: A qualitative Study

Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2021
BACKGROUND፡ Countries rely on out-of-pocket spending to different degrees and employ varying techniques. This study aimed at designing an out-of-pocket payment model of patients admitted to the Iran health system.METHODS: This study was a combined qualitative and quantitative study.
Esmaeil Rezazadeh, GhahramanMahmoudi, Fatemeh Dabaghi   +2 more
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