This paper states that traditional facilities (i.e., hospitals, remote physician offices or referral care) may not be …

Findings suggest that many hospitals' negotiating leverage significantly increased after years of decline. Today, many … hospitals are viewed as having the greatest leverage in local markets. Changes in three areas—the policy and purchasing … context, managed care plan market, and hospital market—appear to explain why hospitals' leverage increased, particularly …

In the late 1980s, the Prospective Payment System and the expansion of managed care plans forced hospitals to be cost … scale economies among merged and control hospitals prior to the merger, and one year and two years after the merger, using …

. This study uses a 1992–1996 Health Care Utilization Project sample of hospitals to analyze the relationship between managed … efficiency of hospitals. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006 …

are age and number of diagnoses. Under the current NHS fixed price payment system, there are incentives for hospitals to …

first three years of Tennessee's Medicaid managed care program, TennCare. Using claims data containing fee …

for women not enrolled in TennCare. Variation in outcomes across managed care organizations is probably due to risk …