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At present, there is virtually no mechanism of cost containment or cost control implemented w. r. t. the outlays for the treatment of patients by general practitioners in Austria. Due to asymmetric information about the true cost of treatment physicians are able to provide an excessive level of services or provide services at excessive cost. We argue that benchmarking physicians’ treatment strategy w. r. t. cost efficiency by means of Data Envelopment Analysis makes it possible to implement a reimbursement system that ensures service provision at an efficient cost level by minimizing the ability of physicians to appropriate information rents.
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Staat, M. (2003). DEA-Benchmarks for Austrian Physicians. In: Schwaiger, M., Opitz, O. (eds) Exploratory Data Analysis in Empirical Research. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55721-7_38
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