When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Dillender, Marcus; Jinks, Lu; Lo Sasso, Anthony T.
署名单位：
Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Analysis Group Inc.; National Bureau of Economic Research
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0047-2727
DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104781
发表日期：
2023
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摘要：
Policies to reduce health care payments can lead to health care access issues if providers reduce their sup-ply in response to reimbursement rate reductions. We examine the impact of a policy that reduced reimbursement rates by 30% in a workers' compensation insurance system that provided generous reimbursement rates relative to other payers even after the rate reduction. The results suggest that providers' supply is inelastic at the part of the reimbursement distribution that we study. Our estimates indicate that the policy reduced annual workers' compensation medical costs by over $400 million without affecting injured workers' health care utilization or health. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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