Prescribing Cost Savings by GP Fundholders: Long‐Term or Short‐Term?

David K. Whynes, Tara Heron and Anthony J. Avery

Health Economics, 1997, vol. 6, issue 2, 209-211

Abstract: Fundholding general practices have been observed to be more successful than non‐fundholders in controlling the growth of their prescribing costs. Debate persists over the likely duration of this fundholding effect. Regression analysis of changes in prescribing costs for a large sample of practices over 5 years supports the view that prescribing cost economies have been short‐ rather than long‐term, and that practices entering fundholding did not engage in strategic, cost‐raising behaviour prior to joining the scheme. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1997
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