Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems
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Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems
Prevention has been a main issue of recent policy orientations in health care. This renews the interest on how different organizational designs and the definition of payment schemes to providers may affect the incentives to provide preventive health care. We focus on the externality resulting from referral decisions from primary to acute care providers. This makes our analysis complementary to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1538-0653
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0653.1115