Neither TennCare nor private insurance is perfect. TennCare needs to be expanded to cover 300,000 poor working people …

TennCare recipient satisfaction survey reported that 92 percent of enrollees were either "satisfied" or "very satisfied …

Findings suggest that many hospitals' negotiating leverage significantly increased after years of decline. Today, many … hospitals are viewed as having the greatest leverage in local markets. Changes in three areas—the policy and purchasing … context, managed care plan market, and hospital market—appear to explain why hospitals' leverage increased, particularly …

In the late 1980s, the Prospective Payment System and the expansion of managed care plans forced hospitals to be cost … scale economies among merged and control hospitals prior to the merger, and one year and two years after the merger, using …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

are age and number of diagnoses. Under the current NHS fixed price payment system, there are incentives for hospitals to …