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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Author | |
| Foreword | |
| Terms of Trade: The Flow of Funds Through the Health Care System | |
| What is Economics? | |
| The Flow of Funds | |
| Quality | |
| Public or Private Choices | |
| Research | |
| Time | |
| Economic Principles as Conceptual Tools | |
| Health Principles | |
| Health and The Economy | |
| Demand and Supply | |
| Need Versus Demand | |
| The Demand Curve | |
| Marginal Revenue | |
| Is Money the Only Price? | |
| Supply: Inputs and Production Functions | |
| Markets | |
| The Production of Health | |
| Efficiency | |
| Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | |
| Cost-Benefit Analysis is about Making Choices | |
| Maximization: Finding the Optimum | |
| Measuring Benefits | |
| Measuring Costs | |
| Evidence-Based Medicine | |
| The Value of Life | |
| Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) | |
| Perspectives: Patient, Payer, Government, Provider, Society | |
| Health Insurance: Financing Medical Care | |
| Methods for Covering Risks | |
| Insurance: Third-Party Payment | |
| Risk Aversion | |
| Adverse Selection | |
| Moral Hazard | |
| Tax Benefits | |
| Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Markets | |
| History of Health Insurance | |
| Financing Health Care: Insurance as a Funding Mechanism | |
| Insurance Contracts and Managed Care | |
| Types of Insurance Plans | |
| HSA's, Medical Savings Accounts and "Consumer-Driven Health Plans." | |
| A Range of Risk Bearing: Fixed Premiums, Administered Services Only, and Self-Insurance | |
| Managed Care Plans | |
| The Range of Managed Care Plans | |
| Is Managed Care The Solution to Rising Costs? | |
| Managed Competition: The Enthoven Plan | |
| Incentives-To Patients, To Payers, and To Providers | |
| Physicians | |
| Financing Physician Services: Revenues | |
| Physician Incomes | |
| Physician Financing: Expenses | |
| The Transaction Between Doctor And Patient | |
| Uncertainty | |
| Licensure: Quality or Profits? | |
| Medical Education, Organization, and Business Practices | |
| Medical Education | |
| The Origins of Licensure and Linkage to Medical Education | |
| Adjusting Physician Supply | |
| Group Practice: How Organization and Technology affect Transactions | |
| Kickbacks, Self-Dealing, and Side Payments | |
| Price Discrimination | |
| Practice Variations | |
| Insurance, Price Competition, and The Structure of Medical Markets | |
| Hospitals | |
| From Charitable Institutions to Corporate Chains: Development of the Modern Hospital | |
| Hospital Financing: Revenues | |
| Hospital Financing: Expenses | |
| Financial Management and Cost Shifting | |
| How do Hospitals Compete? | |
| Organization: Who Controls The Hospital and for What Ends? | |
| Management and Regulation of Hospital Costs | |
| Why do some Hospitals Cost more than Others? | |
| How Management Controls Costs | |
| Conflict Between Economic Theory and Accounting Measures of Per Unit Cost | |
| Economies of Scale | |
| Quality and Cost | |
| Controlling Hospital Costs Through Regulation | |
| Long-Term Care | |
| Development of The Long-Term Care Market | |
| Defining Ltc: Types of Care | |
| Medicaid: Nursing Homes as A Two-Part Market | |
| Certificate of Need: Whose Needs? | |
| Case-Mix Reimbursement | |
| Substitution | |
| Financial Reimbursement Cycles | |
| Continuing Care Retirement Communities and The Wealthy Elderly | |
| The Effects of aging on Cost and Utilization | |
| Pharmaceuticals | |
| Pharmaceutical Revenues: Sourceso Of FI | |
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