ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level transaction price data from a large …Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81 … commercial insurer, Medicare claims, and New York hospital discharges between 2012 and 2018 to study changes at over 100 …

information is transferred across hospital units and during shift changes. Just two-in-five surveyed health workers in OECD …

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital …

its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff calculation at national level. First, the paper reviews and … assesses the three steps in the G-DRG resource allocation scheme at hospital level: (1) the groundwork; (2) cost … calculation: (1) plausibility checks; (2) inlier calculation; and (3) the “one hospital” approach. The assessment is based on the …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are … understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … operators may improve hospitals' financial performance, but a focus on profitability may adversely affect access to care for …