Dewenter, Ralf; Jaschinski, Thomas; Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2012
In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … pursue any differentiation among prospective patients with different health insurances. We ascribe this finding to …