Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73331 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
BGPE Discussion Paper No. 22
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
The discussion about health care systems focuses on the dynamics of expenditures and on the weak growth of the revenue base. In this discussion it is widely overseen that medical expenditures and supply of medical services crucially depend on the compensation of physician services. The paper analyses the implementation of an outcome-based payment system in the presence of asymmetric information. Two cases are studied in detail: first, the common situation of physician's moral hazard and second, a double moral hazard model. The choice of insurance and payment contracts then depends on the characteristics of asymmetric information.
Subjects: 
outcome-based remuneration
double moral hazard
health policy
JEL: 
I11
I12
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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