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Título: | Quality discrimination in healthcare markets |
Autor(es): | Esteves, Rosa Branca Ghandour, Ziad Straume, Odd Rune |
Palavras-chave: | Quality discrimination Hospital competition Patient heterogeneity |
Data: | 2022 |
Editora: | Universidade do Minho. Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE) |
Resumo(s): | Recent advances in healthcare information technologies allow healthcare providers to more accurately track patient characteristics and predict the future treatment costs of previously treated patients, which increases the scope for providers to quality discriminate across different patient types. We theoretically analyse the potential implications of such quality discrimination in a duopoly setting with profit-maximising hospitals, fixed prices and heterogeneous patients. Our analysis shows that the ability to quality discriminate tends to intensify competition and lead to higher quality provision, which benefits patients but makes the hospitals less profitable. Nevertheless, the effect on social welfare is a priori ambiguous, since quality discrimination also leads to an inefficient allocation of patients across hospitals. |
Tipo: | Documento de trabalho |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/79916 |
Versão da editora: | https://nipe.eeg.uminho.pt/en/nipe-publications/#documentos-de-trabalho |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | NIPE - Documentos de Trabalho |
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WP-07.2022.pdf | Quality discrimination in healthcare markets | 887,32 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |