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Divided by choice? : private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service
Beckert, Walter; Kelly, Elaine - 2017
likely to choose private hospitals; and that dominant drivers of sorting between public and private providers are health … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients … market frictions, limited variation in payments made to hospitals according to patient health means that sorting is estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718861
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Public hospital spending in England : evidence from National Health Service administrative records
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2015
Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that … spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317076
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Are bad health and pain making us grumpy? : an empirical evaluation of reporting heterogeneity in rating health system responsiveness
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Ragazzi, Giovanni; Robone, Silvana - 2014
This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness …, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing … standard socio-demographic characteristics influence the reporting style of health care users with regard to the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729277
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New joints : private providers and rising demand in the English National Health Service
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2015
This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care. We exploit a set of reforms in England that opened up the market for publicly-funded patients to private hospitals. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317864
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New joints : private providers and rising demand in the English national health service
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2016 - This is an updated version of W15/22
elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534268
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Price Changes in Regulated Healthcare Markets : Do Public Hospitals Respond and How?
Verzulli, Rossella - 2015
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010481
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How Do Hospital-Specialty Characteristics Influence Health System Responsiveness? An Empirical Evaluation of In-Patient Care in the Italian Region of Emilia-Romagna
Fiorentini, Gianluca - 2016
Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio … ordered probit model, we are able to correct for variations in individual reporting behaviour due to the health status of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983103
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GPs and hospital expenditures : should we keep expenditure containment programs alive?
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina - 2012
Pay-for-performance programs offering additional payments to GPs can be used not only to improve the quality of care but also for cost containment purposes. In this paper, we analyse the impact of removing financial incentives in primary care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734293
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How do hospital-specialty characteristics influence health system responsiveness? : an empirical evaluation of in-patient care in the Italian Region of Emilia-Romagna
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Robone, Silvana; Verzulli, Rossella - 2016
Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio … ordered probit model, we are able to correct for variations in individual reporting behaviour due to the health status of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703407
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Price changes in regulated healthcare markets : do public hospitals respond and how?
Verzulli, Rossella; Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, … - 2015
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713787