Bleeding hearts, profiteers, or both: specialist physician fees in an unregulated market

M Johar, C Mu, K Van Gool, CY Wong - Health economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… , specialist physicians charge their high-income patients AU$26 more than their low-income
patients. While this gap equates to a 19% lower fees … face in accessing specialist care. There …

[PDF][PDF] Variation in the fees of medical specialists: problems, causes, solutions

IS McRae, KC van Gool - Medical journal of Australia, 2017 - mja.com.au
… variation in the fees charged by specialist physicians and surgeons… markets for certain medical
specialist services, so that some … Other consequences may be difficult to predict, including …

[图书][B] Phantom billing, fake prescriptions, and the high cost of medicine: Health care fraud and what to do about it

TL Leap - 2011 - library.oapen.org
… care system are largely unregulated—something that can lead … doctors then billed private
insurance carriers at inflated rates, … The scheme resulted in higher profits for retail pharmacies …

Inequity in physician visits: the case of the unregulated fee market in Australia

MH Pulok, K van Gool, J Hall - Social Science & Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
… We measure out-of-hospital physician visits separately for GPs and specialists. Respondents
answered two distinct questions on how many times they had consulted a GP and a …

[图书][B] Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts: Indigenous health in Northern Australia

T Lea - 2008 - books.google.com
… : to Heather Cam for her expert guidance, Ella Roby for timely … - and they are essential to
productivity and its profits. There's … , Ross, a research doctor in charge of public health programs …

[PDF][PDF] Marked variation in out-of-pocket costs for cancer care in Western Australia

NS Slavova-Azmanova, JC Newton, CM Saunders - Med J Aust, 2020 - mja.com.au
unregulated private feesetting environment in Australia include price discrimination in some
specialist … and their families to better understand and plan for expenses should be explored. …

The industrial organization of health-care markets

M Gaynor, K Ho, RJ Town - Journal of Economic Literature, 2015 - aeaweb.org
… In this review we focus on market models of price and quality … In 1992 New Jersey
deregulated hospital prices. The neigh… Expected insurer profits under both observed and …

Marked variations in medical provider and out-of-pocket costs for radical prostatectomy procedures in Australia

R Walsan, RJ Mitchell, J Braithwaite… - Australian Health …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
… providers to set their own fees and generate profits, a practice … Previous research has also
shown that in an unregulated fee … selection of specialists to choose from. Likewise, the hospital …

Physician pricing behavior: Evidence from an Australian experiment

S Yu, K van Gool, J Hall, DG Fiebig - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2019 - Elsevier
… We study unregulated physician fees in response to lower … We assume that the physician
is able to influence both fees and … In our sample of specialist physicians, many would have a …

[HTML][HTML] The link between out-of-pocket costs and inequality in specialist care in Australia

MH Pulok, K van Gool, J Hall - Australian Health Review, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
… , fees are unregulated, and physicians are free to charge any … We have not used other
independent variables in estimating … of government policy and market interactions, this presents a …