Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar; Kuchinke, Björn A. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...
