Healthcare Economist April 5, 2024
That is the topic from a recent study by Hayes et al. (2024):
Payments for some diagnostic scans undertaken in outpatient settings were unbundled from Diagnosis Related Group based payments in England in April 2013 to address under-provision. Unbundled scans attracted additional payments of between £45 and £748 directly following the reform. We examined the effect on utilization of these scans for patients with suspected cancer….We applied difference-in-differences regression to patient-level data...