In the late 1980s, the Prospective Payment System and the expansion of managed care plans forced hospitals to be cost … scale economies among merged and control hospitals prior to the merger, and one year and two years after the merger, using …

. This study uses a 1992–1996 Health Care Utilization Project sample of hospitals to analyze the relationship between managed … efficiency of hospitals. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006 …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

management accounting in public hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – To test the research hypotheses, data were collected … from Hong Kong public hospitals using a questionnaire survey. The research attempts to identify how the interactions of … in hospitals in terms of information quality of management accounting systems (MASIQ). Findings – The results show that …

hospitals. We find that Catholic and Protestant nonprofits adopt significantly different strategies in the market. This confirms …

about 216 non-corporatized and 176 corporatized Portuguese hospitals for the period 2002–2009. Five models were applied … hospitals presented the highest efficiency consistency, they had also the lowest levels of productivity, while the hospitals …

the probability of not having enough capacity to satisfy demand, and since demand is uncertain, hospitals have to build … excess capacity and incur the associated costs. Using panel data comprising information for 43 Portuguese public hospitals … (outputs, the price of inputs, some of the hospitals’ organizational characteristics) and an additional term measuring the …

idea that hospitals can be specialized in terms of professional expertise or technical equipment within a given diagnosis … frontier approach on randomly selected data from the annual reports of 1,239 acute care German hospitals for the years 2000 …

hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in … AB394 had the intended effect of decreasing patient/nurse ratios in hospitals that previously did not meet mandated … patient safety in affected hospitals. …