Cristin-resultat-ID: 1897731
Sist endret: 29. mars 2022, 11:10
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Hospital reimbursement and capacity constraints: Evidence from orthopedic surgeries

Bidragsytere:
  • Ingrid Marie Schaumburg Huitfeldt

Tidsskrift

Health Policy
ISSN 0168-8510
e-ISSN 1872-6054
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Trykket: 2021
Volum: 125
Hefte: 6
Sider: 732 - 738
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85102116173

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Tittel

Hospital reimbursement and capacity constraints: Evidence from orthopedic surgeries

Sammendrag

Health care providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending and patient health. This paper studies the effects of a change in the payment scheme for hospitals in Norway. In 2010, payments for patients discharged on the day of admission were substantially decreased, while payments for stays lasting longer than one day were increased. This gave hospitals incentives to shift patients from one-day stays to two-day stays, or to decrease the admission of one-day stays. I study hospital responses using two separate difference-in-differences estimation strategies, exploiting, first, the difference in price changes across diagnoses, and secondly, the difference in bed capacity across hospitals. Focusing on orthopedic patients, I find no evidence that hospitals respond to price changes, and capacity constraints do not appear to explain this finding. Results imply that the current payment policy yields little scope for policymakers to affect the health care spending and treatment choices.

Bidragsytere

Aktiv cristin-person

Ingrid Marie Schaumburg Huitfeldt

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Forskningsavdelingen, Befolkning og offentlig økonomi ved Statistisk sentralbyrå
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