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Fee Controls as Cost Control: Tales from the Frozen North

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  • Barer, M.L.
  • Evans, R.G.
  • Labelle, R.J.

Abstract

While concerns over escalation in health care costs are virtually universal in the industrialized world, the forms of policy response, and their relative success, have been quite variable.

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  • Barer, M.L. & Evans, R.G. & Labelle, R.J., 1988. "Fee Controls as Cost Control: Tales from the Frozen North," Centre for Health Services and Policy Research 88:12r, University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research..
  • Handle: RePEc:fth:brichs:88:12r
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    1. Scott, Anthony & Hall, Jane, 1995. "Evaluating the effects of GP remuneration: problems and prospects," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 183-195, March.
    2. Butler, Richard J. & Hartwig, Robert P. & Gardner, Harold, 1997. "HMOs, moral hazard and cost shifting in workers' compensation," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(2), pages 191-206, April.
    3. Thomas Rice, 2012. "The Physician as the Patient’s Agent," Chapters, in: Andrew M. Jones (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition, chapter 25, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Di Matteo, Livio, 2014. "Physician numbers as a driver of provincial government health spending in Canadian health policy," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 115(1), pages 18-35.
    5. Louis De Alessi, 1989. "The Effect of Institutions on the Choices of Consumers and Providers of Health Care," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 1(4), pages 427-458, October.
    6. Lieverdink, Harm & Maarse, Hans, 1995. "Negotiating fees for medical specialists in the Netherlands," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 81-101, February.

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    Keywords

    HEALTH ; COSTS ; PHYSICIANS;
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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