Managed Care Discounting: Evidence from the MarketScan Database

• Egile Nagusiak: Avi Dor (Egilea), Siran M. Koroukian (Egilea), Michael Grossman (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: SAGE Publishing, 2004-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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The paper examines price discounting by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs) in markets for hospital services. Our empirical analysis focuses on transaction prices for angioplasty, which is a relatively common procedure with well-defined "product&q...