Incentives and Choice in Health Care

Name: Incentives and Choice in Health Care
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ISBN: 9780262693653

ISBN-10: 0262693658

ISBN-13: 9780262693653

Edition: 2008

Authors: Frank A. Sloan, Hirschel Kasper

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A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers expect on their investments in research and development, or disincentives, such as increases in copayments patients must make when they visit physicians or are admitted to hospitals. In this volume, leading scholars in health economics review these new and important results and describe their own recent research assessing the role of incentives in health care markets and decisions people make that…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Hirschel Kasper is Professor of Economics at Oberlin College.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction




To Find the Answer, One Must Know the Question


Health Economics and Public Policy




Health Capital


Theory and Empirical Evidence



What We Know and Don't Know about the Effects of Cost Sharing on the Demand for Medical Care-and So What?




Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard


Implications for Health Insurance Markets




Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Health Care


An Overview of Economic Issues




Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman


To What Extent Do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives?




Medical Career Choices and Rates of Return




The Effects of Incentives on Pharmaceutical Innovation




Physician Fees and Behavior


Implications for Structuring a Fee Schedule




Physician Pay for Performance


Alternative Perspectives




Competition, Information Provision, and Hospital Quality




Summing Up



References


Index