Health provider networks, quality and costs∗
| Title: | Health provider networks, quality and costs∗ |
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| Authors: | Jan Boone; Jel Classification D |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.disei.unifi.it/upload/sub/pubblicazioni/seminari/pdf-seminari/selective_contracting121214.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | selective contracting; exclusive contracts; common contracts; man- aged care |
| Description: | We provide a modeling framework to think about selective contracting in the health care sector. Two health care providers differ in quality and costs. When buying health insurance, consumers observe neither provider quality nor costs. We derive an equilib-rium where health insurers signal provider quality through their choice of provider net-work. Selective contracting focuses on low cost providers. Contracting both providers signals high quality. Market power tends to lower quality and lead to inefficiency. In a dynamic extension of the model, providers under-invest in quality while there can be both over and under-investment in cost reductions if there is a monopoly insurer while an efficient investment equilibrium exists with insurer competition. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.676.2310 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.676.2310; http://www.disei.unifi.it/upload/sub/pubblicazioni/seminari/pdf-seminari/selective_contracting121214.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.CB817B61 |
| Database: | BASE |