GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?

Arbeitspapier

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from conventional fee-for-service to MC practice. Some 175 Swiss GPs participated in discrete choice experiments which permit to put a money value on their status quo bias. Regardless of whether effects coding or dummy coding is used to measure status quo bias, Swiss GPs require at least 16 percent of their current average income to give up fee-for-service in favor of MC practice.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 0910

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Analysis of Health Care Markets ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: general practitioners ; willingness-to-pay ; preferences ; market experiments ; managed care ; effects coding ; status quo bias ; Integrierte Versorgung ; Willingness to pay ; Basisgesundheitsversorgung ; Diskrete Entscheidung ; Schweiz

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Zweifel, Peter ; Rischatsch, Maurus ; Brändle, Angelika
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
• (where): Zurich
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76154
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET