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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment: a laboratory experiment
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dc.contributor.author | Huck, Steffen | de |
dc.contributor.author | Lünser, Gabriele K. | de |
dc.contributor.author | Spitzer, Florian | de |
dc.contributor.author | Tyran, Jean-Robert | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-15T08:04:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-15T08:04:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/46112 | |
dc.description.abstract | In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical treatment is an example of a credence good: only the physician (but not the patient) knows the appropriate treatment, and even after consulting, the patient is not sure whether he got proper treatment or got an unnecessary treatment, i.e. was overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. (author's abstract) | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Social sciences, sociology, anthropology | en |
dc.subject.ddc | Medizin und Gesundheit | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Medicine and health | en |
dc.subject.other | Überbehandlung | de |
dc.title | Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment: a laboratory experiment | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet | de |
dc.description.review | reviewed | en |
dc.source.volume | SP II 2014-307 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | de |
dc.publisher.city | Berlin | de |
dc.source.series | Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels | |
dc.subject.classoz | Medizinsoziologie | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Medical Sociology | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Gesundheitspolitik | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Health Policy | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Medizin, Sozialmedizin | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Medicine, Social Medicine | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Patient | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | patient | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Wettbewerb | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | competition | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Therapie | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | therapy | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Krankenkasse | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | health insurance fund | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Krankenversicherung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | health insurance | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Arzt-Patient-Beziehung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | physician-patient relationship | en |
dc.rights.licence | Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung | de |
dc.rights.licence | Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | WZB | de |
internal.status | formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen | de |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10049928 | |
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dc.type.stock | monograph | de |
dc.type.document | Arbeitspapier | de |
dc.type.document | working paper | en |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10215 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 11006 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 50100 | |
internal.identifier.document | 3 | |
dc.contributor.corporateeditor | Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH | |
internal.identifier.corporateeditor | 381 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 300 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 610 | |
dc.description.pubstatus | Veröffentlichungsversion | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Published Version | en |
internal.identifier.licence | 3 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 1 | |
internal.identifier.review | 2 | |
internal.identifier.series | 920 | |
dc.subject.classhort | 50100 | de |
dc.subject.classhort | 11000 | de |
dc.subject.classhort | 10200 | de |
dc.identifier.handle | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103210 |
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