Static and Dynamic Efficiency of Irreversible Health Care Investments under Alternative Payment Rules

Rosella Levaggi, Michele Moretto and Paolo Pertile

No 2010.130, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured both in the timing of adoption (dynamic) and the intensity of use of the technology (static). If the second instrument is unavailable, a trade-off may emerge between static and dynamic efficiency. In this context, we also discuss how the regulator could use the control of the level of uncertainty faced by the provider as an instrument to mitigate the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency. Finally, the model is calibrated to study a specific technology.

Keywords: Health Care; Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D92 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10
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Journal Article: Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investments under alternative payment rules (2012)
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