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Provider competition and over-utilization in health care

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  • Jan Boone

    (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

  • Rudy Douven

    (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

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This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in each case. We show that CfM is optimal if the payer either has contractible information on provider quality or can enforce cost efficient protocols. If such contractible information is not available NC or CoM can be optimal depending on whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer’s and patients’ preferences are aligned.

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  • Jan Boone & Rudy Douven, 2014. "Provider competition and over-utilization in health care," CPB Discussion Paper 275, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
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    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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