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Jasmin Kantarevic

Jasmin Kantarevic

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Jasmin Kantarevic is a senior director, Economics with the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), a research fellow with the Institute for Labour Studies (IZA), and a sessional lecturer II with the University of Toronto.  In his role at the OMA, Jasmin provides economic research, analytical support, and evaluation for the purpose of negotiation and implementation of the Physician Services Agreements with the Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.  He has a thorough understanding of the physician payment contracts in Ontario and extensive experience with databases related to the healthcare system in Ontario, such as the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), and Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB).  As a health economist, Jasmin has a particular interest in the impact of financial and non-financial incentives on behaviour of health care providers as it relates to access, quality, and cost of health care, and has co-authored a number of articles with Boris Kralj and others that were published in journals such as Canadian Journal of Economics, Health Economics, Health Policy, and Journal of Health Economics.  Jasmin received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 2005.