Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures: evidence from the market for rehabilitation care

This study empirically evaluates the effectiveness of different health care cost containment measures. The measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for rehabilitation care. Of the analyzed measures, doubling the dail...

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Volume:	14
Main Author:	Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Boston Springer 01.03.2014 Springer US SPRINGER Springer Nature B.V
published in:	International journal of health care finance and economics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 41 - 67
ORCID:	0000-0003-3562-2371
Data of publication:	20140301
ISSN:	1389-6563 1573-6962
EISSN:	1573-6962
Discipline:	Economics Public Health
Subjects:	Health insurance Control groups Health care costs Vacations Copayments Documentary photography Health care economics Cost efficiency Empirical evidence Health benefits Economic Policy SOEP Public Health Health care demand Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences H51 G22 Substitution effects Preventive care I11 Health Informatics I12 J22 J14 Cost-sharing I18 Medicine & Public Health Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance Public Finance & Economics Health effects Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Business, Finance Business & Economics Health Care Sciences & Services Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Humans Middle Aged Male Cost Sharing - economics Health Services - utilization Health Expenditures - trends Young Adult Health Care Costs - trends Cost Control - methods Adolescent Aged, 80 and over Adult Female Rehabilitation Nursing - economics Aged Salaries and Fringe Benefits - economics Salaries and Fringe Benefits - legislation & jurisprudence Germany Databases, Factual Health care industry Medicine, Preventive Cost control Preventive health services Medical care, Cost of Studies Health care expenditures Health services utilization Cost sharing Price elasticity Preventive medicine Moral hazard Index Medicus Germany SOEP Health care demand DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES DEDUCTIBLES Substitution effects Preventive care INSURANCE PROSPECTIVE-PAYMENT TERM DOCTOR VISITS Cost-sharing DEMAND MORAL HAZARD PHYSICIAN SERVICES SICKNESS Health effects
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