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Managed Care Discounting: Evidence from the MarketScan Database
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2004
unpublished
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The paper examines price discounting by health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations in markets for hospital services. Our empirical analysis focuses on transaction prices for angioplasty, which is a relatively common procedure, with well defined 'product' characteristics. After controlling for patient and procedure heterogeneity and market power we find that on average prices for PPOs are 8% lower than fee-for-service plans, followed by point-of-service HMOs who
doi:10.3386/w10437
fatcat:3goltjg3enbrblm72o6vxmuely