hospital markets. Secondary objectives include estimating hospital demand systems useful for market definition and merger … simulation. To this end, we estimate a structural model of demand and pricing in the short term hospital industry in California … for-profits. We simulate the effects of the 1997 merger of two hospital chains. In unconcentrated markets such as Los …

characteristics. The findings are best explained by differences in the objectives adopted by hospital types rather than differences in … capital constraints faced by them. Preliminary evidence suggests that hospital behavior depends on the ownership form of …

We examine the evolving structure of the U.S. hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences … hospital chain significantly decreases the probability of exit for for-profits, but not not-for-profits …

This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. hospital services industry. The test …

hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health ….4 percent lower levels of hospital expenditures, but virtually the same patient health outcomes. We conclude that for …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

The impact of insurer competition on welfare, negotiated provider prices, and premiums in the U.S. private health care … industry is theoretically ambiguous. Reduced competition may increase the premiums charged by insurers and their payments made … hospital-insurer bargaining over premiums and reimbursements, household demand for insurance, and individual demand for …

This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six … and hospital competition, HMO penetration, and hospital and patient characteristics as explanatory variables. Higher … hospital competition was associated with lower mortality in California and New York, but not Wisconsin. In addition, higher HMO …

in consolidation has led to concern about competition in local markets for hospital services. We examine the effect of … market structure on competition in local hospital markets -- specifically, does the hardness of competition increase with the …There has been considerable consolidation in the hospital industry in recent years. Over 900 deals occurred from 1994 …