In many health care markets, physicians can respond to changes in reimbursement
schemes by changing the volume (volume response) and the composition of services …

Background Drugs can be supplied either directly from the prescribing physician (physician
dispensing [PD]) or via a pharmacy. It is unclear whether the dispensing channel is …

In this paper, we apply a two-part model to estimate the effect of health literacy on the
demand for physician visits under different institutional settings. Using a constructed …

We study the impact of financial incentives on the prescription behavior of physicians based
on a recent reform in two large Swiss cities. The reform opened up an additional income …

Managed Care (MC) is expected to provide health care at a lower cost than conventional
provision. Therefore, Switzerland intends to promote MC by forcing health insurers to write …

Many healthcare systems prohibit primary care physicians from dispensing the drugs they
prescribe due to concerns that this encourages excessive, ineffective or unnecessarily costly …

We study the impact of financial incentives on the prescription behavior of physicians based
on a natural experiment that resulted from a recent reform in two large Swiss cities. The …

Les incitations coûteuses du système de santé : l’exemple de la remise de médicaments – La
Vie économique Dossiers Thématiques Marché du travail Finance / Fiscalité International …

Abstract Neben medizinischem Fortschritt, steigenden Einkommen und dem
demografischen Wandel, haben auch Regulierungen und die damit verbundenen …

El objetivo de la presente tesis fue identificar y analizar las condiciones de trabajo y los
elementos organizativos de los consultorios adyacentes a farmacias privadas CAF y de las …