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hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …
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-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …
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comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide from 1996 to 2017. We employ a flexible generalized … the impacts on negotiated prices and costs. We also find large heterogeneous responses across hospitals that depend on: (1 …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …
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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 examine key features of public hospital spending...
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A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …
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We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …
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period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …
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hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …
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Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...
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This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
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