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Strategic Interaction in the Market for Physician Services: The Treadmill Effect in a Fixed Budget System [PDF]
We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves ƒ{ compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system ƒ{ a severe ...
Achim Wambach, Franz Benstetter
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: Forest Grove School District v. T.A. [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] “The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) guarantees children who qualify as children with disabilities the right to receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE).
Kraft, Theresa
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Dosing Biologic Drugs for Patients with Obesity: One Size Does NOT Fit All
Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Stephen J. Balevic +2 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Introduction In recent years, the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare disease, has significantly progressed, improving patients' survival and overall quality of life. However, current SMA treatments are expensive, and some (nusinersen) are very inconvenient for patients.
Andrej Belančić +4 more
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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 +1 more
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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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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Prescribing cascades occur when medication is prescribed to prevent/treat the adverse effects of another medication and may be intentional/unintentional. This study examines the prevalence of nine prescribing cascades (ThinkCascades) in The Irish Longitudinal StuDy on Ageing (TILDA).
Ann Sinéad Doherty +7 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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Groping for Autonomy: The Federal Government and American Hospitals [PDF]
, 1999 This article chronicles the slow but steady emergence of countervailing power in the hospital industry since mid-century. The transformation of American health care policymaking reflects the federal government\u27s growing fiscal obligations as the ...
Hackey, Robert B.
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