Cost sharing in health service provision: an empirical assessment of cost savings
Fixed price payments for treatment of patients with a specified diagnosis are widespread in both US Medicare and the British NHS even though there are substantial variations in the cost of treatment. Theory suggests that, when there is asymmetric information about those costs, total payment can be r...
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University of Oxford
2001
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