The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …

influence on the average travelling distance that patients accept to get to the hospital of their choice. For example we test …. First: Hospitals, which publish their quality data voluntarily, do attract more patients - compared to such hospital, that …Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients …

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 …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …

hospitals by privileging profitable patients than hospitals in highly concentrated markets. -- Hospital markets ; Patients …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 …

lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …

1 Einleitung -- 2 Disruption oder ein „Weiter so“? – Wo stehen wir in 2030? -- 3 Patienten in den Mittelpunkt stellen … Gesundheitswesen -- 10 Das öffentliche/kommunale Krankenhaus – künftige Rolle in der Gesundheitsversorgung -- 11 Die Zukunft der … Krankenhaussektor. Als Klinikgeschäftsführer der Hospital Management Group ist er seit 2020 als Interimsmanager für Bergman Clinics …