The Impact of Reimbursement Policy on Social Welfare, Revisit Rate, and Waiting Time in a Public Healthcare System: Fee-for-Service Versus Bundled Payment

Pengfei Guo
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Pengfei Guo
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Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
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Christopher S. Tang
Christopher S. Tang
Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Yulan Wang
Yulan Wang
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Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
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Ming Zhao
Ming Zhao
School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 610054; and Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
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Pengfei Guo

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Pengfei Guo

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Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

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Christopher S. Tang

Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095

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Yulan Wang

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Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

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Ming Zhao

School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 610054; and Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

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Published Online:27 Jun 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2017.0690

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