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Causes and Consequences of Fragmented Care Delivery
Leila Agha
Brigham R. Frandsen
James B. Rebitzer
其他書名
Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2017
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jUNqAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Fragmented health care occurs when care is spread out across a large number of poorly coordinated providers. We analyze care fragmentation, an important source of inefficiency in the US healthcare system, by combining an economic model of regional practice styles with an empirical study of Medicare enrollees who move across regions. Roughly sixty percent of cross-regional variation in care fragmentation is independent of patients' clinical needs or preferences for care. A one standard deviation increase in regional fragmentation is associated with a 10% increase in utilization. Our analysis also identifies conditions under which anti-fragmentation policies can improve efficiency.
