TY  - THES 
TI  - Contract choice and patient outcomes in Colombia s health
PB  - Universidad Icesi
PY  - 2015
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78159
AB  - In this paper we develop an empirical analysis in the health market that relates
contracts to patient outcomes through the effort of the health service provider. Using
panel data of a sample of enrollees and their claims in Colombia’s statutory health
system, we show that users in capitation contracts are readmitted to the ER and to
emergency medical consultations at lower rates than users in fee-for-service contracts
and this result holds even after conditioning on specific patient and insurer profiles. We
also find significant differences in the users’ annual cost but there are no differences in
the users’ average length-of-stay.

KW  - Contrato
KW  - Incentivos
KW  - Salud
KW  - Mercados
KW  - Análisis
KW  - Aseguradoras
KW  - Usuarios
KW  - Tésis
KW  - Economía
KW  - Departamento de Economía
ER  -