Cost-sharing and the use of general medical physicians for outpatient mental health care.
Wells, K B, Manning, W G, Duan, N, Newhouse, J P, Ware, J E
Many patients with emotional disorders receive their mental health care from general medical physicians. In this article, we examine differences in costs and style between mental health care...
Effects of cost sharing on physiological health, health practices, and worry.
Keeler, E B, Sloss, E M, Brook, R H, Operskalski, B H, Goldberg, G A, Newhouse, J P
In a randomized trial of the effects of medical insurance on spending and the health status of the nonaged, we previously reported that patients with limited cost sharing had approximately one-third...
Davies, A R, Ware, J E, Brook, R H, Peterson, J R, Newhouse, J P
Do consumers find the care provided by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and that provided in the fee-for-service (FFS) system equally acceptable? To address this question, we randomly assigned...
How free care improved vision in the health insurance experiment.
Lurie, N, Kamberg, C J, Brook, R H, Keeler, E B, Newhouse, J P
We studied reasons for the improvement in the functional vision of enrollees receiving free care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Among low income enrollees, 78 per cent on the free plan and...
The external costs of a sedentary life-style.
Keeler, E B, Manning, W G, Newhouse, J P, Sloss, E M, Wasserman, J
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we estimated the external costs (costs borne by others) of a sedentary life-style. External costs stem...
International comparisons of health expenditure: Theory, data and econometric analysis
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Jonsson, Bengt, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Comparisons of aggregate health expenditure across different countries have become popular over the last three decades as they permit a systematic investigation of the impact of different...
An overview of the normative economics of the health sector
Hurley, Jeremiah, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter provides an overview of normative analysis in the health sector in recent decades. It surveys two distinct, but related, literatures. The first is normative analysis of the operation of...
Medical care prices and output
Berndt, Ernst R., Cutler, David M., Frank, Richard G., Griliches, Zvi, Newhouse, Joseph P., Triplett, Jack E., ...
We review in considerable detail the conceptual and measurement issues that underlie construction of medical care price indexes in the US, focusing in particular on the medical care consumer price...
Advances in cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions
Garber, Alan M., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Recent work has clarified the welfare implications of the application of cost-effectiveness analysis to the allocation of health care. Although cost-effectiveness analysis shares many similarities...
Information diffusion and best practice adoption
Phelps, Charles E., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Incomplete information issues pervade health care markets, with market participants often having relatively little information, and their behavior exhibiting corresponding aberrations from classic...
Jones, Andrew M., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
A decade ago, Newhouse (1987) assessed the balance of trade between imports from the econometrics literature into health economics, and exports from health economics to a wider audience. While it is...
Grossman, Michael, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter contains a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health which was originally developed in 1972. Theoretical predictions are discussed, and theoretical...
Moral hazard and consumer incentives in health care
Zweifel, Peter, Manning, Willard G., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Consumer incentives are reflected in a wide range of choices, many of which occur in both insurance- and tax-financed health care systems. However, health insurance and sick leave pay cause consumer...
McGuire, Thomas G., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter reviews the theory and empirical literature on physician market power, behavior, and motives, referred to collectively as the issue of "physician agency." The chapter is organized around...
Pauly, Mark V., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This paper discusses theoretical and empirical findings concerning insurance reimbursement of patients or providers by insurers operating in private markets or in mixed public and private systems....
The anatomy of health insurance
Cutler, David M., Zeckhauser, Richard J., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing...
Health insurance and the labor market
Gruber, Jonathan, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
A distinctive feature of the health insurance market in the US is the restriction of group insurance availability to the workplace. This has a number of important implications for the functioning of...
Glied, Sherry, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
By 1993, over 70% of all Americans with health insurance were enrolled in some form of managed care plan. The term managed care encompasses a diverse array of institutional arrangements, which...
Risk adjustment in competitive health plan markets
Ellis, Randall P., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
In the 1990s many countries have chosen to use prospective payment arrangements for health plans (e.g., health insurers, sickness funds or HMOs) together with health plan competition, as a means of...
Government purchasing of health services
Chalkley, Martin, Malcomson, James M., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter reviews the literature on payment schemes for government purchases of health services. It focuses on four themes: (1) the tension between obtaining appropriate quality of services and...
Frank, Richard G., McGuire, Thomas G., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health economics only more so: uncertainty and variation in treatments are greater; the...
Norton, Edward C., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter summarizes recent theoretical and empirical economic research on long-term care. Long-term care differs from acute medical care in four fundamental ways. Long-term care is care for...
The economics of disability and disability policy
Haveman, Robert, Wolfe, Barbara, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
We discuss and critique the main lines of economic research that address the economic status and behavior of the working-age population of people with disabilities. We define this population as those...
Child health in developed countries
Currie, Janet, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the...
The industrial organization of health care markets
Dranove, David, Satterthwaite, Mark A., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Health care markets fail to satisfy many requirements for perfect competition, including large numbers of consumers and firms, zero search costs, and marketability of all goods and services. Over...
Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and...
Scott, Anthony, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
General (or family) practice and its role within primary care is increasingly regarded as the key to achieving efficiency and equity in many health care systems. This is particularly relevant where...
Waiting lists and medical treatment: Analysis and policies
Cullis, John G., Jones, Philip R., Propper, Carol, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
A number of health care systems use waiting time as a rationing device for access to inpatient care. However, a considerable amount of research has focussed in particular on the UK's National Health...
Sintonen, Harri, Linnosmaa, Ismo, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
The purpose of this chapter is to review dental economics in three major areas: (i) demand for and utilisation of dental care, (ii) productivity, technical efficiency and economies of scale in dental...
Scherer, F.M., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
This Handbook chapter surveys the extensive body of research on the economics of the pharmaceutical industry (with peripheral attention paid also to regulated medical devices). Pharmaceuticals is one...
Liability for medical malpractice
Danzon, Patricia M., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Physicians are traditionally liable under a negligence rule of liability. Economic analysis of liability rules, including malpractice, assumes that the primary function of liability is injury...
Antitrust and competition in health care markets
Gaynor, Martin, Vogt, William B., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
In this chapter we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The chapter begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health...
Regulation of prices and investment in hospitals in the United States
Salkever, David S., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
With the spread of cost-based hospital payment systems in the United States in the 1960s, and the implementation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1966, rapidly rising hospital costs imposed...
Chaloupka, Frank J., Warner, Kenneth E., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
While the tobacco industry ranks among the most substantial and successful of economic enterprises, tobacco consumption is associated with more deaths than any other product. Economic analysis of the...
Cook, Philip J., Moore, Michael J., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Excess drinking is associated with lost productivity, accidents, disability, early death, crime, neglect of family responsibilities, and personality deterioration. These and related concerns have...
Kenkel, Donald S., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Prevention ranges from medical decisions such as vaccinations and clinical preventive services delivered during periodic health examinations to private health lifestyle decisions such as regular...
Dolan, Paul, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
An important consideration when establishing priorities in health care is the likely effect that alternative allocations will have on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the relevant...
Economic epidemiology and infectious diseases
Philipson, Tomas, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Infectious diseases are is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and have been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology....
Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
Wagstaff, Adam, Van Doorslaer, Eddy, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and temporal...
Williams, Alan, Cookson, Richard, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the...
Cost-sharing and the use of general medical physicians for outpatient mental health care.
Wells, K B, Manning, W G, Duan, N, Newhouse, J P, Ware, J E
Many patients with emotional disorders receive their mental health care from general medical physicians. In this article, we examine differences in costs and style between mental health care...
Effects of cost sharing on physiological health, health practices, and worry.
Keeler, E B, Sloss, E M, Brook, R H, Operskalski, B H, Goldberg, G A, Newhouse, J P
In a randomized trial of the effects of medical insurance on spending and the health status of the nonaged, we previously reported that patients with limited cost sharing had approximately one-third...
Davies, A R, Ware, J E, Brook, R H, Peterson, J R, Newhouse, J P
Do consumers find the care provided by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and that provided in the fee-for-service (FFS) system equally acceptable? To address this question, we randomly assigned...
How free care improved vision in the health insurance experiment.
Lurie, N, Kamberg, C J, Brook, R H, Keeler, E B, Newhouse, J P
We studied reasons for the improvement in the functional vision of enrollees receiving free care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Among low income enrollees, 78 per cent on the free plan and...
The external costs of a sedentary life-style.
Keeler, E B, Manning, W G, Newhouse, J P, Sloss, E M, Wasserman, J
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we estimated the external costs (costs borne by others) of a sedentary life-style. External costs stem...
ACTION OF METABOLIC POISONS ON THE ISOLATED RETINA: RELATION OF HISTOLOGICAL TO BIOCHEMICAL LESIONS*
Criteria for determining an optimal cigarette tax: the economist's perspective
Warner, K. E., Chaloupka, F. J., Cook, P. J., Manning, W. G., Newhouse, J. P., Novotny, T. E., ...
Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues.
Berndt, E.R., Cutler, D.M., Frank, R.G., Griliches, Z., Newhouse, J.P. ; Triplett, J.E.
We review in considerable detail the conceptual and measurement issues that underly construction of medical care price indexes in the U.S., particularly the medical care consumer price indexes...
How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts
D. Cutler, R.G. Frank, C. King III, M.B. Rosenthal, E.R. Vigdor, A.M. Epstein, ...
We estimate the increment in Massachusetts Medicaid program costs attributable to smoking from December 20, 1991, to 1998. We describe how our methods improve upon earlier estimates of analogous...