Insurance Examination Fees.

Lowering of Insurance Fees

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?It has come to my knowledge that some of the Insurance Companies are paying only Rs. 5 for examination of cases when, as a matter of fact, the legal fee for the same, as allowed by majority of Companies is Rs. 6 or Rs. 8 per case up to Rs. 2,000. Therefore I would request my fejlow practitioners to charge not less than Rs. 6 for each case. If the C...

Screening for Patent Quality: Examination, Fees and the Courts

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating four main policy instruments: patent office examination, preand post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show that examination and pregrant fees are complementary, and that pre-grant fees screen more effectively than post-grant fees. Simulations of the model, calibrat...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Migrating from user fees to social health insurance: exploring the prospects and challenges for hospital management

BACKGROUND In 2003 Ghana introduced a social health insurance scheme which resulted in the separation of purchasing of health services by the health insurance authority on the one hand and the provision of health services by hospitals at the other side of the spectrum. This separation has a lot of implications for managing accredited hospitals. This paper examines whether decoupling purchasing ...

An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

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