Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health …

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 …

expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who … shift their utilization more strongly towards other providers. Our results have potential implications for health policy in …

participate in MT through four channels: on their own, use an agent, with the help of their insurance companies or their domestic … $100,000) to go on their own. Finally, both rural residents and those who reported 'poor' or 'fair' health were less …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

sector affect significantly providers’ efficiency. Because of the high variation both in the financing and in the provision … (DEA), where in the first-stage we estimate the DEA efficiency scores for all Italian hospitals and, then, in the second …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

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 …