For a couple of years now, CPB has a special research program focusing on healthcare. Rising cost and aeging ask for policy solutions, like competition between hospitals and a changing role for insurance companies.
We show that this reform not only affected consumption of this care type, but also the consumption of three other types of long-term care that are financed through another public scheme.
CPB Discussion Paper 382 | 13 September 2018
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CPB Communication | 10 July 2018
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CPB Communication | 1 June 2018
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In the Dutch health care system health insurers negotiate with hospitals about the pricing of hospital products in a managed competition framework. In this paper, we study these contract prices that became for the first time publicly available in 2016. The data show substantive price variation between hospitals for the same products, and within a hospital for the same product across insurers.
CPB Discussion Paper 378 | 29 March 2018
24 pages | pdf document, 2.9 MB
Exploiting a rich data set on the Dutch market for assistance in daily housekeeping activities (ADHA), we find that larger providers obtain a higher price than do small providers. However, compared to other studies on market power in care markets this price difference is considered small to moderate.
CPB Discussion Paper 373 | 8 February 2018
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