Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75858 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 427
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves ƒ{ compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system ƒ{ a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the treadmill effect. For the institutional setting of German primary physician service we provide evidence for decreasing reimbursement per treatment, which is consistent with theoretical predictions. When market entry is possible, a budget can be efficiency enhancing, if in addition a price floor is used.
Subjects: 
Health economics
supplier-induced demand
remuneration systems
coodination device
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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