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报告题目：The Impact of Relative Price Changes in Healthcare on Hospital Choices and Economic Implications: Evidence from China

报 告  人：王吉元（中央财经大学 副教授）

主 持  人：程春丽（中山大学岭南学院 副教授）

时      间：2024年1月8日（周一）10:00

地      址：岭南堂汪道涵会议室（101）

语      言：英文+中文

摘要:

In a healthcare market where patients can freely choose hospitals, it is important to understand to what extent healthcare prices play a role in affecting patients’ choices. This paper estimates the effect of changes in relative healthcare prices on patients’ hospital choices by exploiting a policy that changes patients’ cost-sharing at different levels of healthcare institutions in China. Using a unique hospitalization data set from China and a Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) approach, we show that patients are sensitive to relative price changes when selecting different levels of healthcare institutes. In specific, when faced with lower cost-sharing at a primary care hospital and higher cost-sharing at a high-level hospital, patients significantly increase the visits to primary care hospitals and decrease visits to high-level hospitals. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the policy in strengthening primary care utilization in China. Further analysis of the economic implications shows that the efficiency among tertiary hospitals improves, while the policy leads to both efficiency gains and losses in the primary care sector.

报告人介绍：

       王吉元，中央财经大学保险学院副教授，英国约克大学HEDG外聘研究员，主要研究方向为健康经济学、健康保险。目前在Journal of Risk and Insurance，Health Economics，Applied Economics，Singapore Economic Review，管理评论，应用经济学评论等期刊发表论文多篇，主持国家自然科学基金青年项目一项、主持和参与其他纵向和横向课题多项，担任多本国际著名期刊匿名审稿人。

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