What do physicians dislike about managed care? Evidence from a choice experiment
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In: The European journal of health economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 08.2013, p. 601-613.
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T1 - What do physicians dislike about managed care?
T2 - Evidence from a choice experiment
AU - Rischatsch, Maurus
AU - Zweifel, Peter
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - Managed care (MC) imposes restrictions on physician behavior, but also holds promises, especially in terms of cost savings and improvements in treatment quality. This contribution reports on private-practice physicians' willingness to accept (WTA, compensation asked, respectively) for several MC features. In 2011, 1,088 Swiss ambulatory care physicians participated in a discrete choice experiment, which permits putting WTA values on MC attributes. With the exception of shared decision making and up to six quality circle meetings per year, all attributes are associated with non-zero WTA values. Thus, health insurers must be able to achieve substantial savings in order to create sufficient incentives for Swiss physicians to participate voluntarily in MC plans.
AB - Managed care (MC) imposes restrictions on physician behavior, but also holds promises, especially in terms of cost savings and improvements in treatment quality. This contribution reports on private-practice physicians' willingness to accept (WTA, compensation asked, respectively) for several MC features. In 2011, 1,088 Swiss ambulatory care physicians participated in a discrete choice experiment, which permits putting WTA values on MC attributes. With the exception of shared decision making and up to six quality circle meetings per year, all attributes are associated with non-zero WTA values. Thus, health insurers must be able to achieve substantial savings in order to create sufficient incentives for Swiss physicians to participate voluntarily in MC plans.
KW - Management studies
KW - Managed care
KW - Physician preferences
KW - Willingness-to-accept values
KW - Discrete choice experiment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879979690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10198-012-0405-8
DO - 10.1007/s10198-012-0405-8
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 22717653
VL - 14
SP - 601
EP - 613
JO - The European journal of health economics
JF - The European journal of health economics
SN - 1618-7601
IS - 4
ER -