Impact of improved price transparency on patients' demand of healthcare services

Daiki Kobayashi, Rei Goto and Yusuke Tsugawa

Social Science & Medicine, 2019, vol. 235, issue C, -

Abstract: Evidence is limited and mixed as to how improved price transparency affects patients' demand for healthcare. Price transparency usually affects both the supply and the demand side of healthcare. However, in Japan—where healthcare providers cannot compete on prices—we can examine an independent impact of price transparency on patients' demand for healthcare.

Keywords: Price transparency; Costs of care; Patient behavior; Demand of care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112390

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