competition between hospitals, as implemented by a prospective payment system, should lead to an improvement of care quality … available to potential patients. We estimate changes in hospital demand caused by ranking lists on a panel of hospitals located … in the Paris area, for several pathologies. We find a sizeable and significant demand shift towards hospitals belonging …

prospective payments for hospitals. However, the financing of hospitals in some European countries is still based on the so …-called ‘global budget’ approach. Therefore, results of pharmacoeconomic studies involving hospitals financed by the ‘global … line with the national financing system of the hospitals involved. …

hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight various effects on the shifts in the overall distribution of the costs … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …) the effect of the diffusion of technological progress within hospitals ; (iii) the effect of changes in patients …

hospitals. In France, public and private hospitals do not only differ in their objectives. They are also subject to different … schemes until 2004: a global budget system was used for public hospitals, while private hospitals were paid on a fee … both private and public hospitals. Payments generally differ for the same DRG, depending on whether the stay occurred in a …