Identification of competitive healthcare providers is an important issue for successful operation of a bundled payment reimbursement program. We develop a healthcare provider selection framework via data envelopment analysis (DEA) and combinatorial auction (CA). Our goal is to cover target...

We examine the impact of leadership diversity, care delivery, and experience on cost and quality performance of 255 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) - networks of healthcare providers who join voluntarily to provide high-quality coordinated care to patients to reduce medical expenditures....

Online retailers utilize lateral transshipment to meet the immediate shortage of demand at one location from surplus at another location within their retailing network. One option to reduce such potentially expensive transshipment is to hold additional safety stock at each location. We...