Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43543 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2010,130
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured both in the timing of adoption (dynamic) and the intensity of use of the technology (static). If the second instrument is unavailable, a trade-off may emerge between static and dynamic efficiency. In this context, we also discuss how the regulator could use the control of the level of uncertainty faced by the provider as an instrument to mitigate the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency. Finally, the model is calibrated to study a specific technology.
Subjects: 
Health Care
Investments
JEL: 
I18
D92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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