Kaiser, Boris; Schmid, Christian (October 2013). Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures? (CRED Research Paper 2). Bern: CRED - Center for Regional Economic Development
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We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the incentives created by the markup on drugs sold. Using comprehensive physician-level data from Switzerland, we exploit the fact that there is regional variation in the dispensing regime to estimate policy effects. The empirical strategy consists of doubly-robust estimation which combines inverseprobability weighting with regression. Our main finding suggests that if dispensing is permitted, physicians produce significantly higher drug costs in the order of 30% per patient.
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Working Paper |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics > Institute of Economics > Economic Policy and Regional Economics 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics > Institute of Economics 11 Centers of Competence > Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kaiser, Boris, Schmid, Christian Philipp |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
Series: |
CRED Research Paper |
Publisher: |
CRED - Center for Regional Economic Development |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Melanie Moser |
Date Deposited: |
05 May 2020 11:22 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.143548 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143548 |
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