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European priority review vouchers for neglected disease product development

BMJ Global Health
Introduction Neglected diseases are a significant global health challenge. Encouraging the development of therapeutics and vaccines for these diseases would address an important unmet medical need.
David B Ridley, Agustín Martín Lasanta, Ffion Storer Jones, Sarah K Ridley   +3 more
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Coding errors in an analysis of the impact of pay-for-performance on the care for long-term cardiovascular disease: a case study

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2014
Objective There is no standard method of publishing the code ranges in research using routine data. We report how code selection affects the reported prevalence and precision of results.Design We compared code ranges used to report the impact of pay-for ...
Simon de Lusignan, Benjamin Sun, Christopher Pearce, Christopher Farmer, Paul Stevens, Simon Jones   +5 more
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1997 Field Crops IPM in Orange County [PDF]

, 1997
NYS IPM Type: Project ReportIn 1992, a Water Quality Incentive Program provided reimbursement for participation in such programs as IPM.
Hulle, Larry, Roselli, Kathy, Rusinek, Teresa   +2 more
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Community Benefit: Policies, Practices, and Opportunities at the Half-Century Mark

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
In the 50 years since the expansion of the legal definition of charity for tax-exempt hospitals, there have been periodic regulatory actions at the municipal, state, and federal level to quantify charitable contributions and justify the deferral of tax ...
Kevin Barnett
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Contract Design: Risk Management and Evaluation

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2018
Introduction: Effective risk adjustment is an aspect that is more and more given weight on the background of competitive health insurance systems and vital healthcare systems. The risk structure of the providers plays a vital role in Pay for Performance.
Axel C. Mühlbacher, Volker E. Amelung, Christin Juhnke   +2 more
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Incentive Compatible Reimbursement Schemes for Physicians [PDF]

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive to overtreat, i.e., she may provide unnecessary treatments to use up idle capacity. By contrast, with excess demand she may undertreat,
Winand Emons
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Designing green taxes in a political context: From optimal to feasible environmental regulation [PDF]

How should green taxation be designed so that it accommodates producer interests? We argue that to design green taxes which are high enough to have the desired incentive effects, tax revenues must be reimbursed, either by earmarking them for ...
Daugbjerg, Carsten, Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard   +1 more
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Utilization of second medical opinions as a function of the payment method

BMC Health Services Research
Background The cost of a medical service and its mode of payment are known to play a role in patient decision-making, as demonstrated by the pioneering RAND Corporation Health Insurance Experiment (HIE).
Liora Shmueli, Tuvia Horev
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Pay-for-performance and low back pain with interaction of overwork: findings from the cross-sectional Korean working conditions survey

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundPay-for-performance (PFP) is a type of incentive system where employees receive monetary rewards for meeting predefined standards. While previous research has investigated the relationship between PFP and health outcomes, the focus has ...
Julia D. Hur, Julia D. Hur, Jongin Lee
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Using Cost Observation to Regulate Bureaucratic Firms [PDF]

We study regulation of a bureaucratic provider of a public good in the presence of moral hazard and adverse selection. By bureaucratic we mean that it values output in itself, and not only profit.
Ana Pinto Borges, João Correia-da-Silva
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