This article examines the causes of financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. corporations between 1995 and 2004. The findings support organizational-political embeddedness theory, which suggests that differential social structures create dependencies, incentives, and opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance. The historical analysis shows that neoliberal policies enacted between 1986 an...

Forsberg, E. 2001. Do financial incentives make a difference? A comparative study of the effects of performance-based reimbursement in Swedish health care. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1077. 54 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5123-3. Financial incentives have become important in health care all over the world. This thesis...

Introduction Chronic conditions are related to 60% of disability adjusted life years and account for 75% of total health care expenditure worldwide. The economic burden of chronic conditions is much larger when considering the costs of productivity loss and informal care. The threat that chronic conditions pose to population health and economies increase because of increasing prevalence and mul...

The Colombian health care system is a competitive insurance market with a standardized health benefit package (POS). Insurance companies (EPSs) must pay for all services and pharmaceuticals included in the health benefit package and in exchange are given a yearly risk-adjusted capitation payment. This article studies the effect on pharmaceutical prices of two natural experiments that change the...

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where financial gains are large or where hassle costs of complete coding are low. The 2007 Medicare payment reform varied both financial incentives and hassle costs of coding. We find no significant impact of financial incentives on billing levels, inconsistent with bill inflation. However, ...

China has high rates of antibiotic abuse and antibiotic resistance but the causes are still a matter for debate. Strong physician financial incentives to prescribe are likely to be an important cause. However, patient demand (or physician beliefs about patient demand) is often cited and may also play a role. We use an audit study to examine the effect of removing financial incentives, and to tr...