How price responsive is the demand for specialty care?

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 902-912

  Maciejewski, Matthew L ^a,b   Liu, Chuan Fen ^c,d   Kavee, Andrew L ^a   Olsen, Maren K ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

co payment; cost sharing; costs; health econometrics; longitudinal; mixed model; random effects; specialty care; zero inflated data

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VETERAN;

AGED; COST SHARING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84863479499     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1759     Document Type: Article

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