Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis

Table 3 Decomposition of the redistributive impact of OOPP in Austria

	ATP	Total OOPP	Prescription fees	OTC pharmaceuticals	Therapeutical aids	Physician services
ATP I
Gini coefficient	0.2469	-	-	-	-	-
RE		−0.0121	−0.0009	−0.0010	−0.0038	−0.0037
V		−0.0060	−0.0008	−0.0009	−0.0019	−0.0012
H		0.0021	0.0001	0.0001	0.0008	0.0008
R		0.0040	0.0000	0.0000	0.0011	0.0017
Decomposition (in %)
RE (baseline)		100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
V		0.50	0.89	0.90	0.52	0.33
H		−0.17	−0.09	−0.08	−0.21	−0.21
R		−0.33	−0.02	−0.02	−0.28	−0.46
ATP II
Gini coefficient	0.5108	-	-	-	-	-
RE		−0.0770	−0.0042	−0.0067	−0.0278	−0.0211
V		−0.0595	−0.0039	−0.0061	−0.0227	−0.0142
H		0.0089	0.0003	0.0005	0.0024	0.0041
R		0.0086	0.0000	0.0001	0.0026	0.0029
Decomposition (in %)
RE (baseline)		100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
V		0.77	0.93	0.91	0.82	0.67
H		−0.12	−0.07	−0.07	−0.09	−0.20
R		−0.11	−0.00	−0.02	−0.09	−0.13

ATP ability to pay, ATP I ability to pay indicated by household net income, ATP II ability to pay indicated by household net income minus benefits from the income maintenance program, RE redistributive effect, V vertical distribution, H horizontal inequity, R reranking, OOPP out-of-pocket payment, OTC over the counter

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