Essays on cost-containment measures in health care

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Essays on cost-containment measures in health care
Original language description
The topic of this dissertation is cost-containment measures in health care and their effects on various aspects of a patient's behavior. The dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter I assess the ability of gatekeeping restrictions within insurance plans to control the utilization of medical care through their influence on the choice of the initial provider. The second and third chapters make use of a unique natural experiment - a policy change that implemented patient cost-sharing in the Czech Republic starting in 2008. In the second chapter, my coauthor and I investigate the effects of the introduction of lump sum copayments on the utilization of prescription drugs by elderly patients. In the third chapter, we complement the analysis by looking at the effects of the partial reversal of this policy, when regional governing bodies started to reimburse copayments for prescription drugs in the selected (region-owned) pharmacies.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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