This paper provides an overview of evidence of the effects of incentives on the performance and motivation of independent health professionals and health workers. Incentives are viewed in the context of objectives held by paying agencies or employers. The review defines the nature of economic incentives and of non-financial incentives. Particular attention is paid to the need for developing cou...

We call markets in which intermediaries sell networks of suppliers to consumers who are uncertain about their needs "option demand markets." In these markets, suppliers may grant the intermediaries discounts in order to be admitted to their networks. We derive a measure of each supplier's market power within the network; the measure is based on the additional ex ante expected utility consumers ...

As noted, each paper in the series focuses on a specific aspect of publicly financed managed care systems. This paper focuses on promising approaches for serving youth with serious and complex behavioral health needs in managed care systems. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the issues and challenges related to serving youth with serious and complex behavioral health disorders and the...

We consider diffusion in a disk, representing cell with circular interior compartment. Using bipolar coordinates, we perform exact calculations, not restricted by the size or location of intracellular find Green functions, hitting densities and mean times to move from compartment cellular surface vice versa. For molecules diffusivity $D$, are proportional $R^2/D$, where $R$ is radius cell. expl...