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The Effects of Budgets on Doctors Behaviour: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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Mark Dusheiko
Hugh Gravelle
Rowena Jacobs
Peter Smith ()

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In many health care systems primary care physicians act as ‘gatekeepers’ to secondary care. We investigates the impact of the UK fundholding scheme under which general practices could elect to hold a budget to meet the costs of elective surgery for their patients. We use a differences in differences methodology on a large four year panel of English general practices before and after the abolition of fundholding. Fundholding incentives reduced fundholder elective admission rates by 3.3% and accounted for 57% of the difference between fundholder and nonfundholder elective admissions, with 43% a selection effect due to unobservable differences in practice characteristics. Fundholding had no effect on emergency admissions.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK in its series The Centre for Market and Public Organisation with number 03/064.

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Date of creation: Mar 2003
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Keywords: budgets; health care; fundholding; admission rates;

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I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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