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dc.contributor.authorDoessel, D.
dc.contributor.authorF.G. Williams, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T17:00:38Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T17:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2009-12-11T06:45:18Z
dc.identifier.issn03068293
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/03068290410529371
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27367
dc.description.abstractThe production of specialist psychiatric services in Australia reflects the "mixed" system of public and private production of health services generally. This paper, an exercise in descriptive or positive economics, is concerned only with private production, i.e. those services provided by psychiatrists operating in "private practice" on a fee-for-service basis. It is shown that there is a sharp distinction in Australian institutional arrangements between psychiatric services produced in-hospital and out-of-hospital. The main differences relate to the general coinsurance rates applied, 75 per cent in the former case and 85 per cent in the latter case. In addition out-of-hospital services are subject to a "gap" safety-net provision. Using both algebraic and geometric expositions, the central relationships between gross prices, net prices, schedule fees and subsidies/rebates are illustrated in general, and in various special cases, e.g. where a psychiatrist "direct bills" or "bulk bills" the Health Insurance Commission.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Limited
dc.publisher.placeBradford, England
dc.publisher.urihttp://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijse
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom544
dc.relation.ispartofpageto560
dc.relation.ispartofissue5/6
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Social Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1499
dc.titlePrices and subsidies for Australian psychiatric services: A positive economic analysis
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2004
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDoessel, Darrel P.


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