3. Hospital payment

Incentives and DRG price regulation

Michele Bisceglia, Roberto Cellini, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, Optimal dynamic volume-based price regulation, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 73, December, 102675.

Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luigi Siciliani, Gilberto Turati, 2017. Do Public Hospitals Respond to Changes in DRG Price Regulation? Health Economics, 26(S2), Pages 23–37.

Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Luigi Siciliani, Matt Sutton, 2016. How do hospitals respond to price changes? Evidence from Norway, Health Economics, 25(5), 620–636.

Mathias Kifmann and Luigi Siciliani, 2017. Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector, Health Economics, 26(12), 1566-1582.

Hospital casemix

Andrew Street, Peter Sivey, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, 2010, Are English treatment centres treating less complex patients?, Health Policy, Volume 94, Issue 2, pages 150-157.

Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey and Andrew Street, 2013, Differences in length of stay for hip replacement between public hospitals, specialised treatment centres and private providers: selection or efficiency?, Health Economics, 22(2), 234–242.

Differential Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) prices across providers

Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Andrew Street, Are costs differences between specialist and general hospitals compensated by the prospective payment system?, The European Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.

Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Street, 2011, Price adjustment in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, 30(1), 112-125.

Andrew Street, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, 2009, Should prospective payments be differentiated for public and private healthcare providers?,Health Economics, Policy and Law, 4(4), 383-403.

Optimal design of hospital payment (contract theory)

Michael Kuhn and Luigi Siciliani, Manipulation and Auditing of Public Sector Contracts, European Journal of Political Economy, 32, 251-267.

Miltiadis Makris and Luigi Siciliani, 2013, Optimal Incentive Schemes for Altruistic Providers, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 15(5), 675–699.

Elin Hafsteinsdottir and Luigi Siciliani, 2010, DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine?, Health Economics, 19(10), 1226-1239.

Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Selection of treatment under prospective payment systems in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, 25(3), 479-499.

Luigi Siciliani, 2007, Optimal contracts for health services in the presence of waiting times and asymmetric information, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 40, 1-25.

Bargaining

Luigi Siciliani and Anderson Stanciole, 2013, Bargaining and the provision of health services, European Journal of Health Economics, 14, 391–406.

Technical efficiency

Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Estimating technical efficiency in the hospital sector: a panel-data analysis, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 5(2), 1-20.