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Technological adoption in health care
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This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology
adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by
demand uncertainty, increased patients’ benefit, financial variables, and the
reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied: cost
reimbursement and (two variants of) DRG. According to the system considered,
adoption occurs either when patients’ benefits are large enough or when
the differential reimbursement across technologies offsets the cost of adoption.
Cost reimbursement leads to higher adoption of the new technology
if the rate of reimbursement is high relative to the margin of new vs. old
technology reimbursement under DRG. Having larger patient benefits favors
more adoption under the cost reimbursement payment system, provided that
adoption occurs initially under both payment systems.
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Health care Technology adoption Payment systems