ArticleJournal of health economics2018
Firm responses to targeted consumer incentives: Evidence from reference pricing for surgical services.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Is physician location sensitive to changes in patients' financial responsibility?Journal of applied economics · 2022Article
- Understanding the distributional impacts of health insurance reform: Evidence from a consumer cost-sharing program.Health economics · 2021Article
- Does managed competition constrain hospitals' contract prices? Evidence from the Netherlands.Health economics, policy, and law · 2020Article
- Reference pricing: The case of screening colonoscopies.Journal of health economics · 2019Article
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Abstract
This paper examines how health care providers respond to a reference pricing insurance program that increases consumer cost sharing when consumers choose high-priced surgical providers. We use geographic variation in the population covered by the program to estimate supply-side responses. We find limited evidence of market segmentation and price reductions for providers with baseline prices above the reference price. Finally, approximately 75% of the reduction in provider prices is in the form of a positive externality that benefits a population not subject to the program.
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