A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers … privately owned hospitals to enter the market. We show that, post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients …

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

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated 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 …

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 …