Health-Care Payment Systems: Cost and Quality Incentives—Reply |
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Authors: | Ching-to Albert Ma |
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Institution: | Department of Economics Boston University Boston, MA 02215. |
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Abstract: | I reconsider the implementation of efficient cost and quality efforts when health-care providers may refuse services to consumers, and introduce a mechanism that is a combination of prospective payment and cost reimbursement. Conditions are derived for the prospective payment level and the margin above cost reimbursement for the implementation of efficient efforts. |
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