Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

or by other changes at the hospital level. …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

– the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

Canada’s restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are … hospital services to provide insight regarding: (a) the effectiveness of a parallel system of private finance in reducing costs …