emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

derived from the hospital's own internal contracting process which generates retention costs of medical personnel and costs of … since the initial cost was considered greater than treating the patient outside hospital facilities. These variables should …

.Design/methodology/approach ndash; An empirical case study is developed in a Tuscan hospital from September 2005 to March 2006, data being collected …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …