The effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs: Evidence from Singapore

This paper examines the effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs. We compare hospital charges before and after Singapore's Ministry of Health started publishing the statistics of hospital charges on its website in the late 2003. We do not find evidence of a decrease in healthcare costs. However, we find some evidence of an increase in cost dispersion, a decrease in patients' length of stay at hospitals, and an increase in hospital care cost per day.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Parinduri, Rasyad
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	hospital charges publication \| healthcare costs \| cost dispersion \| Singapore

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets ; L10 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance. General ; D83 - Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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