Selecting Negotiation Processes with Health Care

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Title:	Selecting Negotiation Processes with Health Care
Keywords:	Health care provision Any Willing Provider Bargaining
Description:	We address the question of how a third-party payer (e.g. an insurer) decides what providers to contract with. Three different mechanisms are studied and their properties compared. A first mechanism consists in the third-party payer setting up a bargaining procedure with both providers jointly and simultaneously. A second mechanism envisages the outcome of the same simultaneous bargaining but independently with every provider. Finally, the last mechanism is of different nature. It is the so-called "any willing provider" where the third-party payer announces a contract and every provider freely decides to sign it or not. The main finding is that the decision of the third-party payer depends on the surplus to be shared. When it is relatively high the third-party payer prefers the any willing provider system. When, on the contrary, the surplus is relatively low, the third-party payer will select one of the other two systems according to how bargaining power is distributed. Financial support of SGR98-0062, DGES97-0181 and HP98-0057 (Xavier Martinez-Giralt) and AILE E52/99 and Praxis XXI 13132/1998 (Pedro Pita Barros) is gratefully acknowledged.
URI:	http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1933
Other Identifiers:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1933
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