OBJECTIVE The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) is adding financial incentives to increase the volume of surgeries provided by hospitals using a marginal pricing approach. The objective of this study is to calculate marginal costs of surgeries based on assumptions regarding hospitals' availability of labor and equipment. DATA This study is based on observational clinical, administrat...

BACKGROUND Alignment between physicians and hospitals is of major importance to the health care sector. Two distinct approaches to align the medical staff with the hospital have characterized previous research. The first approach, economic integration, is rooted in the economic literature, in which alignment is realized by financial means. The second approach, noneconomic integration, represent...

BACKGROUND Financial issues are major barriers for rural-to-urban migrants accessing tuberculosis (TB) care in China. This paper discusses the effectiveness of providing financial incentives to migrant TB patients (with a focus on poor migrants in one district of Shanghai using treatment completion and default rates), the effect of financial incentives in terms of reducing the TB patient cost, ...

Chang Liu, MA, Rosa Baier, MPH, Rebekah Gardner, MD, and Amal Trivedi, MD, MPH  although elecTronic medical recordS (EMRs) may improve quality of care and reduce healthcare spending, uptake remains low in the United States. 8 A 2009 national survey of hospitals found that only 2.9% of hospitals had a comprehensive, electronic system and an additional 7.9%, a basic system. The same year, a phys...

BACKGROUND HPTN 065 (TLC-Plus) evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of providing quarterly $70 gift card financial incentives to HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) to encourage ART adherence and viral suppression, and represents the largest study to-date of a financial incentive intervention for HIV viral suppression. A post-trial qualitative substudy was undertaken to...

In this paper I examine agency theories and the impact it has on corporate life today. I find substantial support (in research and real life) the teaching itself has contributed to greed and the “agency culture” that has driven many firms to their doom. When it comes to game theory and experiments people tend to be self-serving at different levels. Outside these applications most people are als...

This paper provides an answer to an important empirical puzzle in the retirement literature: while most people know little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine administrative and selfreported pension data to measure the retirement response to actual and perceived financial incentives. We find that wellinformed individuals are ...

A variety of financial and non-financial incentives has resulted in a considerable degree of adverse selection against social health insurance in Germany. Enrollees in private health insurance are healthier, have higher incomes and have fewer dependents than enrollees in social health insurance. Adverse selection decreases average premium income and at the same time increases average healthcare...

The use of financial incentives in construction projects has been seen as a way to improve short term motivation, collaboration and reinforce long term commitment between project stakeholders. Yet, very little empirical research has been conducted into how financial incentives should be applied in the context of particular project types in order to maximise their effectiveness. The aim of this ...