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Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information

Overview of attention for article published in Health Economics Review, December 2016
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Title
Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information
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Health Economics Review, December 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13561-016-0135-1
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Tsuyoshi Takahara

Abstract

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) and the shift in the level of cost reduction efforts for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by allowing hospitals to dump high-severity patients. Finally, we show that if the efficiency of the cost reduction efforts varies extensively and the healthcare payment cost is substantial, or if there are many private hospitals, the patient dumping policy can improve social welfare in a wider environment.

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Unknown 19 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 26%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Bachelor 2 11%
Professor 2 11%
Student > Postgraduate 2 11%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 4 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 11%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 26%
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