TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dor,Avi
AU  - Koroukian,Siran M.
AU  - Grossman,Michael
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Managed Care Discounting: Evidence from the MarketScan Database 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2004; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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 capture a 24% discount. Our results are in general agreement with earlier work that shows that managed care discounts are 'real', after accounting for process of care
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w10437
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10437
ER  -