Preisbildung bei ambulant und stationär erbrachten Gesundheitsleistungen / Pricing of Ambulatory and Stationary Health Services

Neubauer Günter () and Pfister Florian ()
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Neubauer Günter: Institut für Gesundheitsökonomik, Nixenweg 2b, 81739 München, Germany
Pfister Florian: Institut für Gesundheitsökonomik, Nixenweg 2b, 81739 München, Germany

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2007, vol. 227, issue 5-6, 621-635

Abstract: In all health care systems exists governmental regulation, as the market for health is unanimously regarded as imperfect. The German health care market is a good example for a strongly regulated market in nearly each submarket, partially the determination of prices. Reimbursement of health goods and services is overwhelmingly collectively contracted between the health insurers and healthcare providers. In this article, we begin with the description of central functions of prices in the health care sector and components of reimbursement systems. After the general thoughts follows an overview of the concrete reimbursement reality in Germany’s ambulatory and stationary care. We identify and discuss pro and contra the trend towards single prices for identical health services in all of Germany. Another, in someway opposite, trend is less collective bargaining between health insurers and associations of health providers, which gets increasingly substituted with selective contracting. Another issue we cover is the relationship between price competition and quality competition.

Keywords: German health care system; price competition; price theory; quality competition; reimbursement systems; health economics; German health care system; price competition; price theory; quality competition; reimbursement systems; health economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2007-5-613

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