BACKGROUND Aiming to align provider incentives toward improving quality and efficiency, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering broader bundling of hospital and physician payments around episodes of inpatient surgery. Decisions about bundled payments would benefit from better information about how payments are currently distributed among providers of different perioperative...

John R. Hauser is the Kirin Professor of Marketing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 38 Memorial Drive, E56-314, Cambridge, MA 02142, (617) 253-2929, (617) 258-7597 fax. Duncan I. Simester is an Associate Professor of Marketing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 38 Memorial Drive, E56-329, Cambridge, MA 02142. Birger Wernerfelt ...

essay on jurisprudence and possible effects of the condition of the dowry *akram sayad **maryam aqai bejestani abstract dowry or mahr one of the financial effects of marriage that couples are required to pay it. high dowry payments and the subsequent imprisonment of many problems facing society and the families of the couple. one of the ways to avoid the dowries of the organization for registra...

OBJECTIVE Up to 50% of pregnancies are unintended in the United States, and the healthcare costs associated with pregnancy are the most expensive among hospitalized conditions. The current study aims to assess Medicaid spending on various methods of contraception and on pregnancy care including unintended pregnancies. METHODS We analyzed Medicaid health claims data from 2004 to 2010. Women 14...

BACKGROUND Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare. AIM To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments. METHODS After co...

We present novel online mechanisms for traffic intersection auctions in which users bid priority service. assume that at the front of their lane are requested to declare delay cost, i.e. value time, and serviced decreasing order declared cost. Since expected arrive dynamically intersections, static pricing approaches may fail estimate user waiting time accurately, lead non-strategyproof payment...

Relationships between Payments Received and Farm Household Well-Being Government payments to farmers increased from about $7.5 billion in 1996—the year the “Freedom to Farm” bill was enacted—to over $20 billion in 1999, 2000, and 2001. This increase stemmed from a drop in agricultural prices, which spurred a dramatic growth in emergency market assistance payments and loan deficiency payments (s...

Relationships between health professionals and pharmaceutical manufacturers can unduly influence clinical practice. These relationships are the focus of global transparency efforts, including in Europe. We conducted a descriptive content analysis of the transparency provisions implemented by February 2017 in nine European Union (EU) countries concerning payments to health professionals, with du...

The purpose of the research discussed in this thesis was to assess the effects of considering airline preferences in runway operations scheduling. This was motivated by the congestion and delays that regularly occur in the air traffic system. Delays cause both cost and inconvenience to airlines and their passengers. Airborne delays increase fuel cost. Delays can cause infeasibility to crew and ...