Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization among Children (with Toshiaki Iizuka)
Monday, October 3, 201612:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Exploiting the variation in the amount of subsidy for child health care by municipality, age and time in Japan, this paper examines the effect of patient cost-sharing on child health care utilization. Using longitudinal claims data and triple difference-in-difference framework, we find that reduced cost-sharing significantly increases utilization of outpatient care among children. We further investigate whether these increase in outpatient visits solely reflects moral hazard or increases in beneficial care.
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