Impacts of healthcare price controls: Potential unintended consequences of firms' responses to price policies

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-38

  Rouse, William B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Economics; Healthcare; Optimization; Policy; Price controls

Indexed keywords

BEST CHOICE; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; OPTIMIZATION POLICY; POLICY MAKERS; PRICE CONTROL; PRICE POLICY; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; RATIONAL BEHAVIOR; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

HEALTH CARE; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 77951092649     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2009.2039736     Document Type: Article

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