کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
962220 930003 2007 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Medicare balance billing restrictions: Impacts on physicians and beneficiaries
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Medicare balance billing restrictions: Impacts on physicians and beneficiaries
چکیده انگلیسی
Beginning in the late 1980s, states and the federal government restricted the ability of physicians to “balance bill” Medicare beneficiaries for charges in excess of the copayment and reimbursement amounts approved by Medicare. In this paper, I provide empirical evidence that this policy change resulted in a 9% reduction in out-of-pocket medical expenditures by elderly households. In spite of the change in marginal reimbursement to physicians, however, I find little evidence that the restrictions affected patterns of care. Thus, this restriction on the prices charged by physicians amounted to a transfer from affected physicians to affected patients.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 26, Issue 2, 1 March 2007, Pages 326-341
نویسندگان
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