examine whether hospital policy can stimulate hospital TFP growth. We exploit variation across German federal states in the … period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …), ownership, medical students, and hospital investment funding. We show that TFP growth in German hospital care reflects quality …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …

the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money …

the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money …

effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the …

providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI … problem in the outpatient sector, in 2015 Germany introduced a reform that was aimed at providing SHI holders with … outpatient treatments in Germany and assessed the reform’s impact on this issue. We found a sizeable difference in waiting times …

reduced charge prices by 3.9% (which corresponds to savings of $1,164 per hospital stay) but also diminished negotiated prices … by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as … negotiated prices, while low-price hospitals increase charges; (2) hospital characteristics such as ownership, case mix, and …