Managed Care Discounting: Evidence from the MarketScan Database
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” chara...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2004-05-01
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| Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_41.2.159 |