Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: A stochastic frontier cost function approach
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- dc.contributor.author Puig, Jaumeca
- dc.contributor.author Ortún Rubio, Vicenteca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:51:03Z
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- dc.date.issued 2003-07-01
- dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:08:05Z
- dc.description.abstract The principal aim of this paper is to estimate a stochastic frontier cost function and an inefficiency effects model in the analysis of the primary health care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180 providers in 1996 in Catalonia. The evidence from our sample does not support the premise that contracting out has helped improve purchasing cost efficiency in primary care. Inefficient purchasing cost was observed in the component of this purchasing cost explicitly included in the contract between purchaser and provider. There are no observable incentives for the contracted-out primary health care teams to minimise prescription costs, which are not explicitly included in the present contracting system.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=719
- dc.identifier.citation Health Economics, 2004; 13: 1149-1165
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/800
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 719
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- dc.subject.keyword primary health care
- dc.subject.keyword purchasing cost efficiency
- dc.subject.keyword frontier models
- dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
- dc.title Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: A stochastic frontier cost function approachca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper