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    Financial Incentives to Encourage Value-Based Health Care
    Scott, A ; Liu, M ; Yong, J (SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2018-02)
    This article reviews the literature on the use of financial incentives to improve the provision of value-based health care. Eighty studies of 44 schemes from 10 countries were reviewed. The proportion of positive and statistically significant outcomes was close to .5. Stronger study designs were associated with a lower proportion of positive effects. There were no differences between studies conducted in the United States compared with other countries; between schemes that targeted hospitals or primary care; or between schemes combining pay for performance with rewards for reducing costs, relative to pay for performance schemes alone. Paying for performance improvement is less likely to be effective. Allowing payments to be used for specific purposes, such as quality improvement, had a higher likelihood of a positive effect, compared with using funding for physician income. Finally, the size of incentive payments relative to revenue was not associated with the proportion of positive outcomes.
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    Competition, prices and quality in the market for physician consultations
    Gravelle, H ; SCOTT, A ; Sivey, P ; Yong, J (Wiley, 2016-04)
    Prices for consultations with General Practitioners (GP's) in Australia are unregulated, and patients pay the difference between the price set by the GP and a fixed reimbursement from the national tax-funded Medicare insurance scheme. We construct a Vickrey-Salop model of GP price and quality competition and test its predictions using individual GP-level data on prices, the proportion of patients who are charged no out-of-pocket fee, average consultation length, and characteristics of the GP's, their practices and their local areas. We measure the competition to which the GP is exposed by the distance to other GP practices and allow for the endogeneity of GP location decisions with measures of area characteristics and area fixed-effects. Within areas, GP's with more distant competitors charge higher prices and a smaller proportion of their patients make no out-of-pocket payment. GP's with more distant competitors also have shorter consultations, though the effect is small and statistically insignificant.