Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Field of interest: Health - Health Insurance, Public and Private; Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health • Public Economics
Membership: Doctoral students - temporarily interrupted study, Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Contact
Office: By appointment
Email: tomas [DOT] troch [AT] gmail [DOT] com
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PhD study
Tutor: PhDr. Jaromír Baxa Ph.D.
Studying from: 2014
PhDr examination:
Final exam:
Dissertation Proposal defence:
Dissertation defence:
Current work:
Effects of reimbursement mechanisms on the quantity of provided healthcare
Dissertation topic:
Links between reimbursement and performance of the Czech healthcare sector
Disertation abstract:
In my thesis, I will describe how individual reimbursement mechanisms work, what kind of behaviour they theoretically encourage and what has been their actual impact on healthcare system performance. Czech reimbursement system has experienced many changes in the past ranging from annual updated to large scale reforms. Further the system of multiple insurance companies and freedom to choose the preferred reimbursement scheme allows the coexistence of several insurance mechanisms, even within a single hospital. The Czech healthcare system along with its changes offers a large potential for policy evaluation research which has not been done in the past.
The results of this thesis would be a more complete theoretical understanding of the links between healthcare agents’ motivation, reimbursement and outcomes which would be backed by empirical evidence and analysis. Beside the theoretical advancement, the thesis would offer a range of policy implications for the healthcare sector based on the policy evaluation of past reimbursement changes.
For more details, see my individual study plan
Optional courses:
2014/15 WS: JED414 - Quantitative Methods
CV
Education
2014+: Ph.D., Ekonomics, IES, FSV, UK
2009 - 2014: Mgr., Ekonomic theories, IES, FSV, UK
2011+: Bc. Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Job history
2013+ Reimbursement Analyst
Ministry of Healthcare, Department of Reimbusrsement
2014+ Teaching Assistant, JEM004 - Advanced Macroeconomics
Awards and prizes
2014: M.A. with distinction from the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences for an excellent state-final examination performance and for an extraordinarily good masters diploma thesis
Topics for supervision
Bachelor theses
Topics in healthcare economics:
regional variation in healthcare provision
hospital efficiency comparison
reimbursement mechanisms (theory and empirics)
health macroeconomic multipliers
other topics
Master theses
Topics in healthcare economics:
regional variation in healthcare provision
hospital efficiency comparison
reimbursement mechanisms (theory and empirics)
health macroeconomic multipliers
other topics
