In 2000, California legislated parity coverage for mental health care. This article reviews the experiences of state … federal parity law. California’s experiences suggest that federal policymakers should consider monitoring health plan …

efficient. The increased number of hospital mergers suggests that merging is a way to become more efficient to ensure long …

. This is the first time that such a broad study has been implemented. After adjusting for hospital characteristics …

how competition among providers interacts with payment system incentives when the allocation of provider effort among …

Increasing evidence shows that hospital competition under fixed prices can improve quality and reduce cost. Concerns … remain, however, that competition may undermine socio-economic equity in the utilisation of care. We test this hypothesis in … the context of the pro-competition reforms of the English National Health Service progressively introduced from 2004 to …

right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip fracture, hospitals with more rivals had higher mortality at the …

The health economics literature contains contradictory empirical findings regarding the cost of an empty hospital bed … hospital. We provide a relationship between capacity utilization, productive efficiency, and the cost of empty beds, and then … Norwegian hospitals, who face very little competitive pressure, and the unregulated, private California hospitals, divided into …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of free patient choice (monopoly versus competition) and increased competition through lower transportation costs …

This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …